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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 1998 16:07:56 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        mike@dingo.cdrom.com (Mike Smith), mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernfs/procfs questions... 
Message-ID:  <199806022307.QAA18235@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jun 1998 11:50:32 CDT." <199806021650.LAA02867@dyson.iquest.net> 

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>Mike Smith said:
>> 
>> Sure; but can't these sort of improvements be made to the methods for 
>> manipulating procfs nodes?  What other drawbacks are there to the FS 
>> model?
>> 
>It is bogus that writing to a file "controls" something inside
>the system, that is kind-of what SNMP is for.  Now, if someone
>wants a kernfs that is compatible with our sysctl, they should
>be able to use the sysctl info to build the kernfs. 

   I can see it now: sysctlfs :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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