I'd like to suggest to remove the sysctl function from glibc in rawhide this week. It's been deprecated upstream, but I think it's more convenient to us to remove it in a mid-year release cycle, separate from the GCC rebase.
On some architectures (notable aarch64), the sysctl function is just a stub because the kernel does not support the system call. This requires the right magic configure checks (autoconf handles it correctly, others do not). Some packages also have kernel (header) versions which are quite broken (see openrdate). Removing this function should trigger the appropriate fallback paths in those packages. The change would only affect compiling and linking new binaries. Existing binaries will continue to run, subject to the availability of the system call. Comments? Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
