Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:17:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB for Linuxulator variables Message-ID: <199908162217.PAA01159@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:47:55 %2B0200." <21672.934840075@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >Given that "ABI" is a bit obscure, kern.compat is the only sensible > >choice. > > I think that is too obscure considering the exposure this will get. What "exposure"? It's a backend to a tuning interface for our ABI compatibility... > It doesn't really matter much what we feel about it, linux will be > a native and 100% normal binary format for us, if we try to > marginalize it we loose in perception. I don't see how organising the sysctl namespace in a tidy fashion constitutes "marginalising" anything. > We have things to make us posix compatible at the top level already, > I don't see why the linux stuff should live under the top level too. One wrong... > And as father of sysctl, I think this discussion needs to come to > a close rather than waste more bandwidth, so unless Mike can convince > us why "Adding anything at the top level would be a terrible mistake" > I think the conclusion is "linux.*" For the same reason that fattening any top-level namespace is a bad idea. I mean, why not just put all the Linux libraries in /lib where they expect to be? From the perspective of an integrated namespace, we've already made the wrong moves insofar as vm.* should be kern.vm.*, vfs.* should be kern.vfs.*, etc. Either the entire kernel namespace should have a presumed leading kern. (and the existing kern.* nodes need to move) or we should relocate stuff to reflect a more ubuquitous naming arrangement. (btw, you're not the "father" of sysctl. I might go for "perpetrator" or "culprit" though.) -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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