Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: source-changes
Date: 08/06/2006 01:57:05
Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com> wrote on Sun,  6 Aug 2006
at 05:09:21 +0000 in <eb3ti1$h7b$1@sea.gmane.org>:

> >I'm just afraid such not-so-meaningful digits might confuse
> >some users.
> 
> I agree with that assessment.

You're kidding? Surely users will say "look, it's a big number," and
go on with their lives. If the presence of big numbers confuses them,
they probably have serious other problems we can't fix.

I agree with Perry's assessment that it is nice to have the raw data.
I'd much rather the OS not make decisions for me about what is
significant and what is not.

--jhawk