Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:39:11 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/26787: sysctl change request Message-ID: <55163.990689951@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 20:30:03 PDT." <200105240330.f4O3U3b93675@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In message <200105240330.f4O3U3b93675@freefall.freebsd.org>, Dima Dorfman write s: >The following reply was made to PR kern/26787; it has been noted by GNATS. > >From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> >To: phk@FreeBSD.org >Cc: ancient@bofh.cet.net, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: kern/26787: sysctl change request >Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 20:27:19 -0700 > > <phk@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > Synopsis: sysctl change request > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed > > State-Changed-By: phk > > State-Changed-When: Wed May 23 13:14:17 PDT 2001 > > State-Changed-Why: > > This is a sensible wish, but unfortunately there are sysctl variables > > which take opaque data types so doing this in a general way may be tricky. > > I think the best way would be to have the individual handlers print > this message. I think that would be a needless replication of code. I think the feature is rather marginal in the first place, so I don't want to see 1000 lines of code in the kernel to implement 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-bugs" in the body of the message
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