Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.
Lieven Marchand (mal@bewoner.dma.be)
24 Oct 1998 22:31:30 -0000
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
> Use /proc for processes only, and move the rest to /sysctl (or whatever).
> Make it hierarchical, and use one and the same format for all
> files, say fieldname: value. For the current multivalue lines use
>
> fieldname1.0: value
> fieldname2.0: value
> fieldname1.1: value
> fieldname2.1: value
>
> Give a unique numeric value to all fieldnames as well, and implement
> a sysctl way to get the values in binary format too (ASN.1 ?). It
> sucks that the kernel has to convert big tables to ascii, that
> a userlevel tool has to parse that and convert it back to binary ..
Seems like you just described SNMP with MIBs. I for one find them less
usefull than they sound when you start using them in practice. YMMV
Lieven
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