Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Because everyone uses SNMP, and it would be a boon to have the numbers
centrally assigned. If people have to roll their own, the MIBs will be
incompatible, which will be bad for everyone.
-hpa
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