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Date:      Tue, 2 Jun 1998 07:33:03 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        mike@smith.net.au, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cdrecord trouble on currnet
Message-ID:  <199806012133.HAA00254@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> This would defeat the entire purpose of sysconf(), which is to pass 
>> opaque constants to the kernel.
>
>Bullshit.  Go look at the code before making pronouncements from on
>high.
>
>In particular, note the code which quite clearly states:
>
>        case _SC_CHILD_MAX:
>                return (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC, &rl) ? -1 : rl.rlim_cur);
>        case _SC_CLK_TCK:
>                return (CLK_TCK);
>
>There is no earthly reason why a:
>
>	case _SC_PAGESIZE:
>		return (getpagesize());
>
>...cannot be added to this same switch statement.

Except it gives yet more namespace pollution.  Existing namespace pollution
can be leveraged by calling sysctl() directly:

	case _SC_PAGESIZE:
		mib[0] = CTL_HW;
		mib[1] = HW_PAGESIZE;
		break;

Bruce

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