Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 19:12:48 EST


> > 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.

We have a numeric tree. Its called sysctl. Its trivial to export to snmp
and there are people doing it as is.

Of course Linus hates sysctlm so back to square 0

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