kern_sysctl.c interface

[Alan Somers]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 9:57 AM Alfonso Sabato Siciliano
<alfix86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

This is the first time in a long time that I've read the words "snmp"
and "future" in the same sentence.  Does anybody still use SNMP
anymore?  Has it been supplanted yet?
-Alan