Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:37:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scanf in the kernel? Message-ID: <199811032237.PAA22900@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199811032054.MAA00380@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Nov 3, 98 12:54:22 pm
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> > You've interpreted this wrong. My intent was to state "You should > > consider the ultimate consequences of your design decisions before > > you make them" and "I think this design decision is ill considered". > > I know. This is why I said you were making an implicit value judgement. Ugh. I give up. How many times do I have to say, "yes, this is what I said" for what I said to not be considered "implicit" by you? I think we are using different definitions for "implicit". I feel like Andre the Giant trying to explain the correct usage of "inconcievable" to Vizini the Sicilian in "The Princess Bride". > > > Tell me how you plan to export the mapping between MIB numbers and > > > names from the MIB manager. Tell me how this is not a name-to-number > > > lookup interface. 8) > > > > By looking up the names in a different part of the MIB. > > Which is a name-to-number translation interface. Provided by the mib > manager group entity. > > Thank you for at last agreeing. The information is there because it was put there, not because it was translated via scanf, whatever... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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