svn commit: r356262 - head/sys/kern
Gleb Smirnoff
glebius at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 4 01:54:28 UTC 2020
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 <antranigv at 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?
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Gleb Smirnoff
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