From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
Subject: Re: [CFT] Grep to find users of sys_sysctl.
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:54:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1bqo7406k.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061020003540.10d367d9.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:35:40 -0700")
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:05:18 -0600
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyone who is interested in knowing if they have an application on
>> their system that actually uses sys_sysctl please run the following grep.
>>
>> find / -type f -perm /111 -exec fgrep 'sysctl@@GLIBC' '{}' ';'
>>
>> The -perm /111 is an optimization to only look at executable files,
>> and may be omitted if you are patient.
>>
>> Currently I don't expect anyone to find a match anywhere except in
> libpthreads,
>> if you find any others please let me know.
>>
>
> http://www.google.com/codesearch
>
> there are a few hits...
What were you using for search criteria?
A challenge is to weed out code that runs on BSDs where people do use sysctl.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-20 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-18 18:23 sysctl Albert Cahalan
2006-10-18 18:27 ` sysctl David KOENIG
2006-10-18 18:31 ` sysctl Linus Torvalds
2006-10-18 18:52 ` sysctl Cal Peake
2006-10-18 19:12 ` sysctl Olaf Hering
2006-10-18 19:44 ` sysctl Andrew Morton
2006-10-18 21:06 ` sysctl Cal Peake
2006-10-19 4:41 ` [RFC] [PATCH] Improve the remove sysctl warnings Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-19 16:25 ` Cal Peake
2006-10-19 19:50 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-10-19 19:55 ` Cal Peake
2006-10-20 7:05 ` [CFT] Grep to find users of sys_sysctl Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-20 7:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-20 12:54 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-10-20 16:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-21 10:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-20 7:52 ` Russell King
2006-10-20 14:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-20 15:18 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-10-21 10:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-20 15:46 ` Bill Nottingham
2006-10-20 8:02 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-10-20 13:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-20 17:54 ` Marco Roeland
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