Sysctl as a Service, or: making sysctl(3) more friendly for monitoring systems

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Dec 13 06:03:55 UTC 2016


On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
> If only we had a mechanism for these kinds of sensors to register, so
> the API they'd be using would be one that lead itself to edge/level
> triggered comparisons, versus polling.
>
> Wait, didn't we /have/ one of those up for review a few years ago, and
> it wasn't merged in?

Didn't we have people willing to work with the folks that put this up
when to address the defects in the review? Oh, wait, they never wanted
to work to fix the problems, even with many offers of help to do so.

My offer still stands, btw.

Warner


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