From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 28 2:45:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from the-village.bc.nu (lightning.swansea.uk.linux.org [194.168.151.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D87214C96 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 02:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) Received: from alan by the-village.bc.nu with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10yXwO-0004oB-00; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:43:04 +0100 Subject: Re: Improving the Unix API To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:43:03 +0100 (BST) Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us, fare@tunes.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Jun 28, 99 09:52:35 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 343 Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > As far as sysctl goes, FreeBSD deprecates the use of numbers for OIDs and > has a string-based mechanism for exploring the sysctl tree. So we are actually both going the same way. Linus with /proc/sys and his official dislike of sysctl (Oh well I think sysctl using number spaces is the right idea - like snmp is), and BSD going to names To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message