Klemens Nanni <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to get on with this, can also add sysctl.2 bits to document > those before sending diffs using them.
I want you to prove the use case first. > Mark asked whether CTLTYPE_QUAD would be more suited, but I still don't > understand how that is supposed to work and there was no answer in this > thread's other mail. All the consumers of this use strings. It is a string in the disklabel output, a string in the disklabel command, and they are managed as strings everywhere else. Outside the installer, the only place it is handled is as a partition name, which is either DUID.a or sd0a, either on the commandline or in fstab. Always hanled as a string, because the shell handles numbers poorly, let alone hex numbers with extra stuff afterwards.
