Re: cloneable tun

[Grumpy]

> My favourite "quick-and-dirty" language is Python, and I consider
> myself a fairly proficient Python programmer.  I've never, ever, done
> ioctls from Python, and while it looks indeed as if it is possible to
> do so, I'm sure it'd take me some effort to get it right.

I definitely agree with your statement!

I've found ioctls much easier to perform in brainf*ck than in python.

Grumpy

Re: sndio cleanups

[Grumpy]

> Granted, the trend seems to be that everything excepts BSDs and Linux is
> dead anyways, so if it builds there, you should be fine. ;(

Does Netcraft confirm this?

Re: dd(1) human-readable output

[Grumpy]

> This is going to break atleast 3 scripts that get run periodically
> on all of my development machines, while I'm happy with adjusting
> them (this change would make them smaller actually) I'm unsure if
> we want to throw this into the wild, since this output behaviour 
> is _old_.

That's the point, exactly. People (well, scripts written by people)
depend on the dd report output format.

> Now, a -h button or similar would solve that, but thats fugly.

Given dd is non-unixy in its commandline syntax, this would rather be a
``conv='' suboption. Or its own ``summary=human-readable'' option.
Definitely not a dash-prefixed option.

> So, while I'm all for it, I think the greybeards need to weigh
> in on this :)

It's not grey, you damn kid. It's ``exhausted tone''.

Grumpy

Re: If you are one of the cool kids who cranks kern.bufcachepercent up..

[Grumpy]

> > @@ -350,7 +359,7 @@
> >  * referencing buffers.
> >  */
> > toggle ^= 1;
> > -   if (numvnodes > 2 * maxvnodes)
> > +   if (numvnodes / 2 > maxvnodes)
> > toggle = 0;
> 
> + if ((numvnodes >> 1) > maxvnodes)
> 
> slightly better?

I find your lack of faith in the compiler disturbing.