Re: Proposed new sysctl MIB nodes

Jason R Thorpe <thorpej-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]> Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:09:06 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.os.bsd.api.general
Organization	Wasabi Systems, Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:24:27PM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

 > > OK, since there hasn't been any further discussion about this, I'll take
 > > this to mean that we're all in agreement.  Here is the patch I'm checking
 > > into NetBSD.  I will check a patch into GCC to use it in a few days.
 > 
 > for better backwards-compatibility for folks using the old interfaces,
 > how about making them "saturating" values:
 > 
 > 	If the real value is >= 2^32, return (2^32)-1

Yah, I'm going to fix the existing nodes to do this in NetBSD
later today.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]>

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