Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:58:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Mitchell <brian@firehouse.net> To: Preferred Customer <moncrg@ma.ultranet.com> Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sysctl Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970908205618.27531A-100000@shell.firehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <01BCBC8F.DE28EAE0@d7.dial-22.mbo.ma.ultra.net>
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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Preferred Customer wrote: > > 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 seems to me that SYSCTL_INT() covers both of these. I'm using SYSCTL_INT in cases where i only need on/off values, it isn't too bad :). > > 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 > > You could add some of this with SYSCTL_PROC fairly easily.
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