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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:55:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_aio.c src/lib/libc/gen sysconf.c src/sys/posix4 posix4.h posix4_mib.c
Message-ID:  <200211181755.gAIHtpa4015337@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021117184717.X21842-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <200211170724.gAH7OHkQ000622@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20021117184717.X21842-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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<<On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:02:08 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

> The CTL_P1003_1B_* constants seem to be in <sys/sysctl.h> now (I'm 10
> days behind -current).  Couldn't all of these be OID_AUTO and not have
> pre-assigned numbers?  Having to preassign the numbers gets in the way
> of even incremental development of the features (assuming sysctl does
> the right thing for completely unimplemented features).

The sysconf() tokens have to be pre-assigned already, and I'd prefer
to avoid the bloat of having a boatload of mostly-identical strings in
the implementation of sysconf().

-GAWollman


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