From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 8 1:19:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E3A1542D for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 01:19:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BC91F72; Sat, 8 May 1999 16:19:50 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Andrzej Bialecki , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: somebody has broken sysctlbyname() in -current In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 May 1999 15:58:05 +0900." <3733E07D.13078A1C@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 16:19:50 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990508081953.53BC91F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > It's interesting that the ANSI emulation in loader(8) is good enough to do > > full-screen displays. It still seems to make sense to move userconfig-like > > functionality into the pre-kernel stages including moving config(8)'s hints > > to a loaded and parsed file. Forth, bah.. :-] > > I recall saying once I'd do it once people decided they wanted it. > The disadvantage of anything written in Forth is that not many > people can then maintain the code. But, then again, there is some > code around written in C that no one *wants* to maintain (a certain > installation program comes to mind... :) Well, if you look at userconfig.c, you'll notice that very few people understand/maintain that code either. The most common changes are adding or removing device descriptions in a table, and that should be pretty much the same no matter what language it's written in... Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message