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