svn commit: r300718 - in head/sys: kern sys

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 26 21:37:18 UTC 2016


  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.


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