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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:15:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)
Message-ID:  <199901251615.LAA19410@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199901242355.PAA05605@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <199901242340.SAA04694@kot.ne.mediaone.net> <199901242355.PAA05605@apollo.backplane.com>

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<<On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:55:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

>     Strings are a whole lot more portable then integer assignments.

Nonsense.  Strings are not portable at all -- they only exist in
FreeBSD.  The reference implementation (4.4BSD) and its other
descendants use numbers.

-GAWollman

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