Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Improving the Unix API | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:43:03 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> As far as sysctl goes, FreeBSD deprecates the use of numbers for OIDs and > has a string-based mechanism for exploring the sysctl tree.
So we are actually both going the same way. Linus with /proc/sys and his official dislike of sysctl (Oh well I think sysctl using number spaces is the right idea - like snmp is), and BSD going to names
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