Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 13:06:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernfs/procfs questions... Message-ID: <199806022006.NAA00370@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jun 1998 11:50:32 CDT." <199806021650.LAA02867@dyson.iquest.net>
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> Mike Smith said: > > > > Sure; but can't these sort of improvements be made to the methods for > > manipulating procfs nodes? What other drawbacks are there to the FS > > model? > > > It is bogus that writing to a file "controls" something inside > the system, that is kind-of what SNMP is for. Now, if someone > wants a kernfs that is compatible with our sysctl, they should > be able to use the sysctl info to build the kernfs. So you don't believe in device files? Or the "everything is a file" model cf. Plan 9? Hmm. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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