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In message <20050408.162454.74411948.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <22307.1112996518@critter.freebsd.dk>
>            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>: In message <4256BF44.2000100@errno.com>, Sam Leffler writes:
>: 
>: >> And besides, a formatted sysctl has no binary compatibility issues at
>: >> all.  I like that too.
>: >> 
>: >
>: >Sure, that's the downside; you need to design binary protocols with care 
>: >(this is a protocol after all).
>: 
>: And given that X.400 is dead and SMTP lives I would say that an ascii
>: based protocol is preferable.
>
>But given that TCP/IP lives, I'm not sure that this is a valid
>argument.

TCP/IP is the transport mechanism and compares to sysctl in this case.

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