kern_sysctl.c interface

Alfonso Sabato Siciliano alfix86 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 14 15:57:09 UTC 2019


On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 at 20:53, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> --------
> In message <
> CANCZdfo8v6O+cJqOFu87ReiTTJxQJxX8YZgj8RBygy9Nb_FEEw at mail.gmail.com>
> , Warner Losh writes:
>
> >> > * This interface is under work and consideration, and should probably
> >> > * be killed with a big axe by the first person who can find the time.
> >> > * (be aware though, that the proper interface isn't as obvious as it
> >> > * may seem, there are various conflicting requirements.
> >>
> >> I think that is a comment I added more than 20 years ago because we,
> >> or at least I, wondered if the sysctl-OID tree should be moved to
> >> something SNMP-OID compatible.
> >>
> >> I dont know of anything happening after that.
> >
> >I suspect after 20ish years the comment can be removed, eh?
>
> Well, it's still a butt-ugly and inefficient interface...
>

thank you for your answers, I agree with you,
snmp-oid could be a nice project in the future.

Regards,
Alfonso


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