Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:58:47 -0500 From: Nathan Lay <nslay@comcast.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, current <current@FreeBSD.org>, Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl Message-ID: <478AEC07.70806@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <1200280105.7836.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1200197787.67286.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20080113064450.GW57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080113182457.GN929@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <1200280105.7836.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > It would be easy to export just the bitmask, and leave the parsing up to > the consumer. However, I think the strings would be more script > friendly. > > Isn't it possible to output human readable format anyways? For example, 'sysctl kern.boottime' gives a human readable string. sysctl() on kern.boottime gives a struct timeval. I'm all for the bitmask idea. Best Regards, Nathan Lay
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