Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 06/09/2005 23:26:54
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:36:52AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>
> personally, i think that where we are at the moment isn't all that
> bad. but...i'm open to change, if after reading this you still think
> i'm wrong.
>
>personally, i think any use of __UNCONST() should be special, not
>a common case. it's use in sysctl now seems to be common, so it
>seems that the right solution includes getting ride of them.
it remains to be seen if "getting rid of them" would amount to the
same number of instances of __UNCONST() as we have already...
there was a definite plan to what i had in mind, and const is not
(though being the closest) to what i had in mind. closer would be a
definition of const that disappeared when kern_sysctl.c was
compiled...
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