"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> said:
[...]
> The *only* reason I want to retain any kind of numeric path is to make
> standardized SNMP MIBs easier to maintain. I'm not suggesting retaining
> sysctl() or whatever. What I suggest is more something like this:
> a) A registrar for the MIBs (name-to-number mapping.) I volunteer to do
> this.
LANA boss you'll be.
> b) A way to find the number corresponding to a name. Ideally this would
> be the st_ino field when doing stat(), allowing ls -li to see the
> numbers quickly and easily, although if having repeated inode numbers
> within the filesystem is deemed a bad idea this could be a ioctl().
Hard links give you repeated inode numbers for names.
> c) [OPTIONALLY] having the filesystem allow lookup() on the numeric name
> as well as the alphanumeric one, i.e. snmpd could
> open("/proc/sys/10/5/6/19/8") instead of
> open("/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/proxy_arp").
More hard links, from the number names too.
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