In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith writes:
>> > Yes, this is very true. But I think we are fooling ourselves if we
>> > believe linux emulation will not become 'standard' in the near future.
>> > Then we'll kick ourselves for giving the sysctl's convoluted names :-)
>>
>> Yeah... Then, the next in line after "linux" are: ibcs2 and svr4 and
>> whatever comes next. Can you live with them as main sysctl categories?
>Given that "ABI" is a bit obscure, kern.compat is the only sensible
>choice.
I think that is too obscure considering the exposure this will get.
It doesn't really matter much what we feel about it, linux will be
a native and 100% normal binary format for us, if we try to
marginalize it we loose in perception.
We have things to make us posix compatible at the top level already,
I don't see why the linux stuff should live under the top level too.
And as father of sysctl, I think this discussion needs to come to
a close rather than waste more bandwidth, so unless Mike can convince
us why "Adding anything at the top level would be a terrible mistake"
I think the conclusion is "linux.*"
Last call Mike ?
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