Re: CVS commit: src/sys/net

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, David Young wrote:

> > > Except for the fact that a sysctl node name cannot begin with a digit.
> >
> > What's stopping us from removing that restriction?
>
> That's a good question.  I don't know.  I had hoped that if I passed
> NULL for the string name, namep, then sysctl_createv(9) would derive a
> name from the integer name.  It does not work that way, yet.
>
> I do think that if a node's string name is all digits, that it should
> equal the string representation of the integer name.

I'm not sure I'm parsing you correctly.  Are you saying that the '3' in

        blah.3.foo

should match the node whose numeric value is 3, as in

        12.3.456

or that it should match the node whose name is the ASCII char '3' 
followed by a NUL character?

Either way still results in possibility of ambiguity.



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