From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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: 18 Oct 2006 13:33:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p737iyxdfiz.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161169330.9363.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>
> Its very simple: sysctl was a neat BSD syscall that turned out to be
> less ideal than using the fs for it. We added it, we supported it, we
> get to keep it. We just stick notes in the docs saying "please use /proc
> instead".
You call that numerical name space neat? IMHO it was a totally bogus
idea. There is already a perfectly fine file system name space, why
add another one?
Anyways, imho the right solution is to remove the numerical
sysctl infrastructure (including most of sysctl.h), but keep
sys_sysctl() with a small mapping table that maps the few
numerical sysctls (mostly KERN_VERSION) that are actually used to
path names internally. The rest should be ENOSYS.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-18 11:34 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 [this message]
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
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