On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 01:23:43AM +0000, Pawel Biernacki wrote: P> Author: kaktus P> Date: Thu Jan 2 01:23:43 2020 P> New Revision: 356262 P> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/356262 P> P> Log: P> sysctl: hide 2.x era compat node P> P> r23081 introduced kern.dummy oid as a semi ABI compat for kern.maxsockbuf P> that was moved to a new namespace. It never functioned as an alias of any P> kind and was just returning 0 unconditionally, hence it was probably P> provided to keep some 3rd party programmes happy about sysctl(3) not P> reporting an error because of non-existing oid. P> After nearly 23 years it seems reasonable to just hide it from sysctl(8) P> list not to cause unnecessary confusion as for its purpose. P> P> Reported by: Antranig Vartanian <antran...@freebsd.am> P> Reviewed by: kib (mentor) P> Approved by: kib (mentor) P> Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22982
Is there any reason to keep it at all even hidden after 23 years? -- Gleb Smirnoff _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
