Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:43:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question) Message-ID: <199901250043.QAA06042@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:44:55 EST." <199901242244.RAA04500@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
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> > Pardon my intrusion, but I strongly dislike the very thought about > my computer looking-up the same string more then once or twice. If it > counts -- I'd take a number over a string anytime anywhere other > then in a documentation. Since sysctl isn't a performance interface, this isn't really an issue. OTOH, you should consider going back to single-character directory names, since that's much more significant. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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