Re: Improving the Unix API

[Alan Cox]

> As far as sysctl goes, FreeBSD deprecates the use of numbers for OIDs and
> has a string-based mechanism for exploring the sysctl tree.

So we are actually both going the same way. Linus with /proc/sys and his
official dislike of sysctl (Oh well I think sysctl using number spaces is the
right idea - like snmp is), and BSD going to names




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