On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Not likely. Names should be strings, damnit. Notice that *BSD folks seem
> > to be moving to sysctlbyname(), which takes a _name_, not an array of
> > magic constants as a sysctl ID. And right they are - it's UNIX, not
> > OS/360, after all.
> >
>
> Well, part of the advantage for doing that is that it would make it
> trivial to run Linux remotely via SNMP. This is a *huge* advantage.
You know, snmpd is not exactly the new thing... Why push the ugly
interface into the kernel? Besides, if you want numbers - fine, just
create your "numeric" tree and populate it with links to your heart's
pleasure. Problem solved.
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