On Thursday, May 26, 2016 04:54:48 PM Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 14:37 -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > > Hans, > > > > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 08:41:55AM +0000, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > H> Author: hselasky > > H> Date: Thu May 26 08:41:55 2016 > > H> New Revision: 300718 > > H> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/300718 > > H> > > H> Log: > > H> Add support for boolean sysctl's. > > H> > > H> Because the size of bool can be implementation defined, make a > > bool > > H> sysctl handler which handle bools. Userspace sees the bools like > > H> unsigned 8-bit integers. Values are filtered to either 1 or 0 > > upon > > H> read and write, similar to what a compiler would do. > > H> > > H> Requested by: kmacy @ > > H> Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies > > > > Would be nice if sysctl(8) would explicitly display them as "true" or > > "false" > > instead of 0 and 1. Now the userland can't differ them from uint8_t > > oids. > > If it displayed them that way, then users would want to set them using > the true/false strings too. If you start down that path you eventually > end up adding support for 0/1/true/false/yes/no/on/off, and if you > don't do that in exactly once place you end up with some oids accepting > all the values and others accepting only some of them, and the user > experience is confusing at best.
You would just do that parsing in sysctl(8) itself, not in the handlers, so I think it would just be done in one place. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ 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"
