In message <199901251615.laa19...@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: ><<On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:55:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon ><dil...@apollo.backplane.com> said: > >> Strings are a whole lot more portable then integer assignments. > >Nonsense. Strings are not portable at all -- they only exist in >FreeBSD. The reference implementation (4.4BSD) and its other >descendants use numbers.
Which is irrelevant, since they don't use sysctl for the same things as us anyway (apart from a very small subset which is >ALREADY< special cased in the kernel). -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
