current-users: Re: NATM broken: atm needs-flag vs options NATM

Subject: Re: NATM broken: atm needs-flag vs options NATM
To: current-users@NetBSD.ORG, der Mouse <mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: current-users
Date: 07/06/1998 10:26:45

Excerpts from netbsd: 5-Jul-98 Re: NATM broken: atm needs-.. der
Mouse@rodents.montre (636*)

> NFSSERVER, NFSCLIENT, NULLFS, NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE.  I think reserving all
> options beginning with N is..excessive.

Agreed. As these "needs-flag" generated N<attribute>
options are kind of system internal, I'd vote to give them
a namespace separate from user-visible options.
(prepend an underscore or "_FLAG_" or so)

best regards
Matthias