Subject: Re: Replacing the sysctl() interface.
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/06/2000 09:50:59
>> please show me how you would solve this, I just don't like the current
>> freebsd way of doing this (if you make mistake in include file ordering
>> kernel compilation fails in very non-intuitive way - I don't remember
>> how to repeat my problem). I just put my personal vote for current
>> netbsd way than current freebsd way. I still have no opinion about
>> what you would propose.
>This is great. "There's a problem, I can't describe it, I can't tell
>you how to repeat it, I can't repeat it myself, but it's Really Really
>Bad?"
>Without knowing what the specific problem is, I can't even begin to
>fathom its cause, and whether that cause is a programming or design
>error in their interface, a programming error in the code which uses
>it, or what. Without knowing that, it's impossible to know how to
>make the design more bulletproof.
I'll try to repeat it sooner. it was something with include file
ordering.
itojun