Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/envstat

[Juan RP <juan%xtrarom.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 15:05:07 +0200
Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost> wrote:

> What I don't understand here is why you don't want to have three
> states there:  1.  envsys knows the value, it's on.  2.  envsys knows
> the value, it's off.  3.  envsys doesn't know the value.
> 
> In this scenario N/A is a wholly different value than OFF.
> 
> I'm not saying that we can't have the two merged, but then I don't get
> why the API offers a field for a value _and_ a field for the validity
> of the said value.
> 
> And I'm pretty sure I've expressed that opinion to you before, albeit
> not on a public list, but a lot before you asked for a final round of
> comments.

If I understand it correctly, what you all want is to have the
following?

value_cur set => ON
value_cur not set => OFF
invalid state = N/A

Is it what you all want? I want to finish this thread now.

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