Re: procfs maintainance (was Re: multimounting cdroms ???)

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Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > This is pretty much the idea behind /proc/sys and the sysctl structure
> > -- one data item per file entry. It is easy to browse automatically,
> > allows simple tools (e.g. shell scripts) to access it, can be trivially
>
> $IFS. while. read. All there in shell. And sed(1) also counts as a simple
> tool, IMO.
>

You end up with reading data over and over and over. I don't think this
is a win.

> > turned into SNMP MIBs, isn't subject to stomping all over kernel memory
>
> You want the namespace to be SNMP-controlled???
>

I want the namespace to have a trivial mapping to an SNMP MIB, yes.

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