On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: MM>In looking over the various options for monitoring the health of the MM>hardware, I notice that it's pretty much a mess. All the software in MM>question runs privileged and grovels through memory in some way. MM> MM>Linux uses a device driver that's a directory full of files holding MM>sensor information. That doesn't seem to be the right direction for MM>FBSD, though. An option that enabled a set of sysctls to collect the MM>information seemed to be more approrpiate. MM> MM>Comments? Suggestions? Brickbats?
What's bad about using files? Just to be different? Isn't it easier to select, poll, kqueue, what ever on files than on sysctls? harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
