sensors fun..

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:17:01 +0100 (BST)
Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> However, this does range a bit far afield from the thread topic.  The
> basic point I was making is that sysctl offers a more semantically
> rich and, to be honest, better defined way of interacting with live
> subsystems than device files do in a generic sense.  You can hammer
> down semantics for device nodes, but the code associated with sysctl
> is much simpler when the goal is to offer mib-like semantics even in
> quite simple cases (integer set/put).

And there's even a MIB for that (perhaps someone even pointed it
already):

	http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3433.txt

Regards.

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez                   rnsanchez at wait4.org
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