IDE TCQ #2
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In my opinion
sysctl()is worthless. It uses an array of numbers whereioctl()uses a single number. Especially since the names are already in the kernel it is much clearer and cleaner to use a pathname. I wouldn't mind ifsysctl()disappeared entirely.
Please have a look at /proc/sys/ OK?
> Also ioctl() has its problems. First of all, nobody knows what the > prototype is. Secondly, it is too rigid - the moment one needs a > larger structure one needs a different ioctl.
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> A text based interface is much more flexible. If the number of > cylinders of a disk no longer fits in a short, well doesn't matter, > then the number of digits may increase but the interface remains > unchanged. Of course the price is that one has to parse, but > typically that is not a problem.
What do you want me to see in /proc/sys/?
Pathnames? That is what I like.
I dislike the system call, with its ugly numbers.
Andries