Since the countdown is on to a new release, I'de like to take a second and nag some committers to take a look at PR kern/15251. Greg was going to take care of it for me before he got called away on business. In any event, it would good to get into 4.0 release if for no other reason than to prevent sysctl(1) from reporting ludicrious values for some system stats on long-running systems. The patches in kern/15251 add an unsigned flag to sysctl vars and updates sysctl(1) to honor that flag. This eliminates the reporting of negative stat counts when an unsigned integer was being displayed as a signed value. In the long term, there will probably be a need to make some of these stat counts larger integers (at least on i386 where longs are 32 bits and are easily overflown on long-running systems), but for now, these patches are a step in the right direction. Thanks, Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Richmond, VA Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries http://www.bellind.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
