From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:35:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161275715.17335.92.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1irig5oli.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Ar Iau, 2006-10-19 am 09:09 -0600, ysgrifennodd Eric W. Biederman:
> > Not the core basic ones that are those people care about
>
> I agree. It just appears that the core basic ones that people
> care about is the empty set.
You should read linux-kernel or the other lists and look at the
complaints the deprecation caused, its not an empty set. It isn't a
large set apparently either however.
> > ** the sysctl() binary interface. However this interface
> > ** is unstable and deprecated and will be removed in the future.
> > ** For a stable interface use /proc/sys.
This is a bit self-referential and self-inflicted. I wish to deprecate
it wrongly because there is a comment that it is deprecated wrongly.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-19 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-17 15:59 config SYSCTL_SYSCALL Jan Beulich
2006-10-17 16:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-17 18:17 ` [PATCH] Restore sysctl syscall option for non-embedded users Cal Peake
2006-10-17 22:11 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-17 21:59 ` Cal Peake
2006-10-17 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-17 23:09 ` [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call Cal Peake
2006-10-17 23:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 3:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-18 11:02 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 11:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 12:15 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 12:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 12:59 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 13:08 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 16:20 ` [PATCHv2] " Cal Peake
2006-10-18 16:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-18 16:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-18 19:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-18 22:13 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-19 15:09 ` [PATCH] " Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-19 16:35 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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