On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 06:42:03AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> I'd say it's a question of whether you think of them as input to the
> kernel, commands ("enable this"), or as output from the kernel,
> reporting state ("this is enabled").
>
> Of course, in most cases, they're actually both, so that doesn't help
> much. But, as a native anglophone, it's what the difference between
> "enable" and "enabled" here feels like to me.
Well, the sysctl tree is a presentation of the state. Changing it is a
command. So I think it should be "enabled".
We could also avoid this problem by using "on" instead, but that's
probably not a great idea.
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David A. Holland
dholl...@netbsd.org
