On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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
As far as I know, only FreeBSD has a string-based sysctl implementation. Something which always confused me about Linux' procfs - what have all these kernel variables got to do with process state? We used to have a kernfs which was intended for this kind of thing but it rotted after people started extending sysctl for the purpose. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [email protected] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
