On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:40:15PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > +When: September 2010 > +Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL > +Why: The same information is available in a more convenient from > + /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be > + important performance wise. > + > + Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel > + bugs and security issues. > + > + When I looked several months ago all I could find after > + searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and > + glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall.
Umm, no way we're ever going to remove a syscall like this. Please stop this deprecration crap. Just make sure no ones adds more binary sysctls. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
