Re: CVS commit: src/sys/net

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

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, David Young wrote:

> > 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
>
> Yes.
>
> > or that it should match the node whose name is the ASCII char '3'
> > followed by a NUL character?
>
> No.
>
> > Either way still results in possibility of ambiguity.
>
> Either way?

"either way" in that whichever of the preceeeding options you selected, 
the other option would represent a problem!  :)

If names are permitted to include only digits, then there is only one
mechanism I can think of that would permit the user of sysctl(8) to 
access both

        foo."3".bar
and
        12.3.bam

But the syntax of the first example is rather ugly, and it introduces 
a(nother) reserved character in the name-space.

:)


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