Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:01:39 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen sysctl.3 Message-ID: <20071016135940.B9055@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200710161129.l9GBTFhM014801@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200710161129.l9GBTFhM014801@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > ru 2007-10-16 11:29:13 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > lib/libc/gen sysctl.3 > Log: > VM_METER is long deprecated. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.74 +2 -2 src/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 In general, we've also been encouraging a move to named sysctls from numeric constants. Should we be sweeping the tree to catch remaining uses, and possibly be considering hiding visibility of the numeric constants from user space by default? (i.e., #ifdef DEPRECATED_SYSCTL_CONSTANTS). I assume we'll want to continue to support them in kernel for the forseeable future to allow old FreeBSD user spaces to continue to run in jails on new kernels. Just something to think about now 8.x is alive and the life cycle is long... Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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