Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:32:07 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: julian@whistle.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph... Message-ID: <9165.917685127@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:22:00 PST." <199901300822.AAA06454@bubba.whistle.com>
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In message <199901300822.AAA06454@bubba.whistle.com>, Archie Cobbs writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >> >What did you think of the idea of having each node contain two >> >new methods for encoding and decoding ASCII strings? I say methods >> >but really they would just understand two new generic message types. >> >> I don't see the point, quite frankly... > >The point is that you avoid having to parse ASCII strings >for *every* control message. I simply don't understand why we can't have a single type of controlmessage that means "Here is an ascii string to you from the super-user, do whatever he tells you to, thankyou!" That's what I'm asking for, no more, no less. -- 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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