On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:15:45PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, David Young wrote: > >>>> Except for the fact that a sysctl node name cannot begin with a digit. >>> >>> What's stopping us from removing that restriction? >> >> That's a good question. I don't know. I had hoped that if I passed >> NULL for the string name, namep, then sysctl_createv(9) would derive a >> name from the integer name. It does not work that way, yet. >> >> I do think that if a node's string name is all digits, that it should >> equal the string representation of the integer name. > > I'm not sure I'm parsing you correctly. Are you saying that the '3' in > > blah.3.foo > > should match the node whose numeric value is 3, as in > > 12.3.456
Yes. > or that it should match the node whose name is the ASCII char '3' > followed by a NUL character? No. > Either way still results in possibility of ambiguity. Either way? Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies dyo...@ojctech.com Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933
