<<On Tue, 19 May 1998 13:52:41 -0700, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> said:
>> I strongly disagree. Devices that have a notion of units should export
>> a unit-based interface in the filesystem (i.e., /dev/foo999). sysctl
>> is very much unsuited to this. (I'm still unhappy about the way I had
>> to kluge things for the ifmib. At least it works...)
> It's debatable as to whether the MIB should exist in the filespace,
I never said that it should. I said that devices should be controlled
by accessing an object in the filesystem.
-GAWollman
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