From: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Subject: Re: snmpd: move smi_getticks to appl_sysuptime
To: Martijn van Duren <openbsd+tech@list.imperialat.at>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org, gerhard@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2025 20:33:34 +0100

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 06:22:29PM +0100, Martijn van Duren wrote:
> smi_getticks is snmpd's current way of supplying the sysUpTime. SMI
> doesn't define the sysUpTime (that would be SNMPv2-MIB), so this
> placing is wrong. Another issue with it is that it uses gettimeofday,
> where CLOCK_MONOTONIC would be a better fit.

I do not have the bandwidth to review these diffs properly and my
personal interest in snmp is very limited to put it politely. Nobody
else seems to be interested in doing review work in this area.

From the descriptions I think all the pending changes make sense and
I would like to see you make progress.

I would be inclined to say: you should go ahead and start trickling
these diffs in after waiting a week or two to see if there are objections
to proceed in this way.