From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: removed sysctl system call - documentation and timeline
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:45:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45241D56.8090402@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490610041335t519678d1u61f5775293c061e4@mail.gmail.com>
Jesper Juhl wrote:
> ohhh, and correct the help text; it currently says
> "...Nothing has been using the binary sysctl interface for some time
> now so nothing should break if you disable sysctl syscall support" -
> that's obviously false as demonstrated by the above extract from my
> dmesg...
>
It's half true. It's true that things try to use it, but they'll
happily fall back to something else (/proc?) if it doesn't work. I used
to get those messages, but it appears that recent glibcs don't use it at
all.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 20:35 removed sysctl system call - documentation and timeline Jesper Juhl
2006-10-04 20:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-10-04 20:50 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-04 21:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-04 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04 22:41 ` Andi Kleen
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