Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 21:46:55 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: unit_list routines Message-ID: <50437.990647215@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 20:44:33 BST." <200105231944.f4NJiXF09637@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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In message <200105231944.f4NJiXF09637@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers write s: >> > > Using bits when there are large numbers of units gets awkward. >> > >> > Just wrap it in macros. I almost posted an implementation with my >> > last message, but decided that since it was so trivial it would be >> > almost insulting for me to do so. >> >> Not true - I'm too thick skinned to be insulted :oI >> >> I'll look at a macro implementation. > >Ok, I've thought about this :-/ I don't think it's practical to >do this with bits if someone does > > # ppp -unit 16777215 > >I then have to go off and allocate an array of 0x7fffff bytes just to >record the fact that someone's using a silly unit number. If true, the rman code should have a big "XXX: rewrite" on top of it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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