From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 10:25:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9034D14D20 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:25:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4BAC21911; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:25:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4899249D2; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:25:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:25:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB for Linuxulator variables In-Reply-To: <199908161709.KAA10454@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :> :>2) under "kern.emu.linux" > :> :>3) under "linux" > :> : > :> :I vote for 3. > :> : > :> :-- > :> :Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > :> :phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > :> :FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > :> > :> Ditto. Linux emulation is going to become increasingly important, > :> burying deep would just make everyone's life more difficult. > : > :Well, it's also a module, so perhaps we should create the whole subtree > :for modules (as was already discussed several times..) > : > :Andrzej Bialecki > > Yes, this is very true. But I think we are fooling ourselves if we > believe linux emulation will not become 'standard' in the near future. > Then we'll kick ourselves for giving the sysctl's convoluted names :-) Yeah... Then, the next in line after "linux" are: ibcs2 and svr4 and whatever comes next. Can you live with them as main sysctl categories? Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message