Re: [tkined] Proposed change of the snmp command.
Cameron Laird (claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:41:19 -0500 (CDT)
From owner-tkined@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Thu Sep 11 10:45:40 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 16:12:00 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@gaertner.de>
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[utterly lucid explanation
of situation and proposal
for change]
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Before makeing the change in my sources, I would like to hear if there
are any problems with this approach. I think this change makes things
much simpler and cleaner. Note, this change will introduce some
incompatibilities, which should however be easy to fix by introducing
additional session handles. Comments?
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There will be incompatibilities, I agree; legacy
applications simply won't work (more precisely:
can't be expected to work). I completely agree
that this interface will be cleaner, and that is
a great benefit. I've tried to imagine a task
for which the current, commingled, semantics of
"snmp ..." are an advantage, and can't some up
with a single serious one. Make the change,
please.
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