On 14/01/2008, Peter Wemm <peter_at_wemm.org> wrote: > On Jan 13, 2008 5:21 PM, Igor Mozolevsky <igor_at_hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote: > > On 13/01/2008, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au> wrote: > > > > > IMHO, no. Virtually all similar FreeBSD information is exported via > > > sysctl and this sort of information fits neatly into the existing > > > MIB tree as either dev.cpu.N.features or hw.cpu.features > > > > /dev/sndstat? > > That is a special case. It was an externally defined API that we > needed to be compatible with. OSS ran on everything from Linux to SVR4 > to FreeBSD at the time. It's the question of where you really want to do the parsing - would you rather the programmer had a simple API that they could query and deal with a boolean result, or would you rather have everyone who wanted to use the feature write their own parser for whatever (loosely formatted value; who known when we'll have features3, features4 and so on) sysctl returned? :-/ IgorReceived on Mon Jan 14 2008 - 01:49:06 UTC
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