On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

MM>In looking over the various options for monitoring the health of the
MM>hardware, I notice that it's pretty much a mess. All the software in
MM>question runs privileged and grovels through memory in some way.
MM>
MM>Linux uses a device driver that's a directory full of files holding
MM>sensor information. That doesn't seem to be the right direction for
MM>FBSD, though. An option that enabled a set of sysctls to collect the
MM>information seemed to be more approrpiate.
MM>
MM>Comments? Suggestions? Brickbats?

What's bad about using files? Just to be different? Isn't it easier to
select, poll, kqueue, what ever on files than on sysctls?

harti
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