Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:49:14 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl interger type max Message-ID: <01060412491406.00744@snoopy> In-Reply-To: <61282.991683835@critter> References: <61282.991683835@critter>
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On Monday 04 June 2001 12:43 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <01060412361804.00744@snoopy>, Jim Pirzyk writes:
> >On Monday 04 June 2001 12:26 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> In message <01060412242703.00744@snoopy>, Jim Pirzyk writes:
> >> >In sysctl(8), you can set an integer type, but the max value
> >> >an int can be is 2 * N-1 where N is the size of int. This leads
> >> >to a problem when trying to set kern.hostid and the number is
> >> >greater that 2GB on an IA32 system. So my question is should
> >> >CTLTYPE_INT be treated as a long or some other larger numeric
> >> >number? Or should we declare some CLTYPE_UINT type?
> >>
> >> We do have an SYSCTL_UINT these days.
> >
> >Yes for establishing the oid in the kernel, but sysctl command
> >line is limited to 2 * 31 bits even if the variable is set to
> >CLTYPE_{UINT|LONG|ULONG}. This means you cannot set the variables
> >to a possible range of values.
>
> Then sysctl(8) is obviously broken...
Yes, so how should it be fixed? Add another CTLTYPE_* or make
CTLTYPE_INT handle say up to 'long long'?
- JimP
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