Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 16:19:50 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: somebody has broken sysctlbyname() in -current Message-ID: <19990508081953.53BC91F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 May 1999 15:58:05 %2B0900." <3733E07D.13078A1C@newsguy.com>
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"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
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