Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:01:03 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Nicolas Christin <nicolas@cs.virginia.edu> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rename of MSIZE kernel option.. Message-ID: <20021015050103.GD14604@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210150002310.13090-100000@arachnion.cs.Virginia.EDU> References: <15787.13726.246550.526201@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210150002310.13090-100000@arachnion.cs.Virginia.EDU>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2002-10-15 00:12, Nicolas Christin <nicolas@cs.virginia.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Would people be open to renaming the 'MSIZE' kernel option to something > > > more specific such as 'MBUF_SIZE' or 'MBUFSIZE'? Using 'MSIZE' can > > > > No. > > > > MSIZE is a traditional BSDism. Everybody else still uses it. > > Even AIX and MacOS. I really don't like the idea of changing this. > > True, but John is right, it's too generic a name. The argument "it's > been forever so we can't change it" seems a bit fallacious to me: True. But that sort of reasoning might lead us one day to rename macros and functions like m_get() to mbuf_get() or similar. That doesn't seem like a good idea :-/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20021015050103.GD14604>