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Subject: Re: sysctl filesystem ?
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> and/or get it wrong.  sysctl has some file-system like properties, but on the 
> whole, it's not a file system -- it's much more like an SNMP MIB.
>
> While you can map anything into anything (including Turing machines), I think 
> the sysctl command line tool and API, despite its limitations, is a better 
me too.

i REALLY appreciate the way FreeBSD do this. pseudo-filesystems are 
sometimes good but making them default method is bad.

Current way is simple. Or actually - less complicated as i think for 
example - XML in system output is not.