Subject: Re: obsoleting sysctl(8)'s -w flag
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/04/2002 21:50:05 
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 05:41:43AM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > Any objections to commit?
> 
> I don't like this; it makes it too easy for a script which
> programmatically constructs MIB entries intended to read random values
> to accidentally set them instead.

Yes, I like the idea behind the required '-w' flag as well.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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