Re: CVS commit: src

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Jan 30, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Simon Burge wrote:

> Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:38 PM, matthew green wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> disklabel.h should export nothing to userland and values userland
>>>> needs should be obtained via sysctl.
>>>> 
>>>> I've been asking this question of various developers for a while.
>>> 
>>> how do i create a disklabel on a file system image as a normal
>>> user a non-netbsd host with this method?
>> 
>> But that would be a hosted tool and that's a different case than 
>> a native tool.  
> 
> Where would the hosted tool get that information from?  If it's from a
> MD header file we're back to where we started...

Why?  hosted != native.  I don't expect a tool to be built on linux to
know where to get a disklabel from.

I do expect the native on NetBSD to know how to get the disklabel location
for the current machine it's running on from sysctl and not a header file.