On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:39:34PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > My proposal is to MIME-ify the Format fields, best presented in examples: > > "S,proc" -> "x-struct/proc" > "S,xfile" -> "x-struct/xfile"
The format field is intended for the interpretation of userland programs like sysctl. For those fields, the human user is barely able to find meaning in the fields -- so this doesn't really help much but changing the kernel ABI. Which should be considered A Bad Thing (TM). Joerg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
