From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 8 16:44:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA15830 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cleopatra.ultra.net (cleopatra.ultra.net [199.232.56.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15817 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d7.dial-22.mbo.ma.ultra.net (d7.dial-22.mbo.ma.ultra.net [146.115.101.71]) by cleopatra.ultra.net (8.8.5/ult1.05) with SMTP id TAA23302 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 19:44:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by d7.dial-22.mbo.ma.ultra.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BCBC8F.DE28EAE0@d7.dial-22.mbo.ma.ultra.net>; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 19:46:15 -0400 Message-ID: <01BCBC8F.DE28EAE0@d7.dial-22.mbo.ma.ultra.net> From: Preferred Customer To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: sysctl Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 19:26:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id QAA15821 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was looking at sysctl,h and kern_sysctl.c the other day and I was wondering why there where no predefined Sysctl_short() aka CTLTYPE_SHORT or Sysctl_char() aka CTLTYPE_CHAR (note: not string Definitions. It seems to me that short and char have to be at lease as worthy to be included as atomic types as quad. Also, shouldn't there be support for octet string, as in a not necessarily print-able sequence of unsigned char (a not uncommon mib occurance) - g