Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 11:43:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: wjw@IAEhv.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SYSCTL ....... Message-ID: <199807251843.LAA05792@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Jul 1998 08:29:08 EDT." <199807251229.IAA06297@spooky.rwwa.com>
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> Another question (to the community): > > Have the FreeBSD *architects* weigh in on the value of the sytsctl approach > as opposed to, say, something like a "sysctl" filesystem (like the proc > filesystem)? Yes, there was a discussion on it a while back; you should be able to locate the thread(s) by searching the archives (hackers IIRC) for 'sysctlfs'. Opinions were divided, but I think that the 'against's were sufficiently convincing at the time. > Also, is this interface expected to be exposed via SNMP? Only indirectly, via an agent that has the opportunity to hold a set of OID:name mappings without forcing the mappings into the kernel. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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