On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, David Young wrote:
To avoid amibiguities, I say that a digits-only name MUST match the integer name. ...
Yes, I would agree with your match criterium.
... That is, this should not be allowed:
sysctl_createv(NULL, 0,
NULL, &cnode,
CTLFLAG_PERMANENT, CTLTYPE_NODE, "17", NULL,
NULL, 0, NULL, 0, 12, 3, CTL_EOL);
because that would create a node with the numeric path 12.3 whose string
path ends in "17".
So all we end up doing is easing the restriction from "no leading digit" to "at least one non-digit" in the node names.
But that doesn't solve the problem which started this thread. In that example, we had a node whose entire name was "3"
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