Date: 08 May 2001 13:40:40 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries Message-ID: <xzp66fckr0n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <5954.989307088@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> References: <5954.989307088@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> writes: > That would meet my needs. Are you sure this is a better route than > allowing a "limiting parent node" to be specified along with -A and -a? > Seems to me that the latter would avoid introducing yet more options and > the functionality I'm proposing seems intuitive to me and Peter at > least. :-) Maybe so, but I've always thought -A and -X were *counter*intuitive, and the current behaviour of 'sysctl foo' where foo is the name of an opaque variable is, to say the least, surprising. Adding the -x option makes it slightly less so. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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