From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"akpm@osdl.org" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 + hotfix -- Many processes use the sysctl system call
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:23:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155918234.24907.35.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060818144626.GA8236@inferi.kami.home>
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:46 +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:45:01PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 15:41 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> > > My installation of Ubuntu is having trouble with my kernel build
> > > because I disabled support for sysctl:
> > >
> > > warning: process `ls' used the removed sysctl system call
> > > warning: process `touch' used the removed sysctl system call
> > > warning: process `touch' used the removed sysctl system call
> > > warning: process `evms_activate' used the removed sysctl system call
> > > warning: process `alsactl' used the removed sysctl system call
> > >
> > > I am curious whether the use of sysctl indicates a problem in these
> > > processes. What is the benefit of offering disabling sysctl support?
> >
> > To make the kernel smaller for people who don't need sysctl.
> > Apparently, you need it.
>
> afaik, they are being fixed (in debian at least):
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2006/08/msg00163.html
>
"fixed"? Why is sysctl being removed in the middle of a stable kernel
series?!? I thought the new golden rule was "don't break userspace"?
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-18 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-17 22:41 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 + hotfix -- Many processes use the sysctl system call Miles Lane
2006-08-17 22:45 ` Lee Revell
2006-08-18 14:46 ` Mattia Dongili
2006-08-18 16:23 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-08-18 17:00 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-19 0:30 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-08-19 2:40 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-08-19 0:49 ` Lee Revell
2006-08-18 10:30 ` Frederik Deweerdt
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