From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
Date: 02 Sep 2007 00:16:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73lkbqvxp8.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708301432.11516.rob@landley.net>
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:
>
> A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for space
> reasons. This would make that noticeably more painful.
I had a patch for a sysctl_name(2) for this a long time ago.
If it was a serious issue that could be reintroduced.
BTW sysctl(2) only needs to be quiet for a single sysctl used
by glibc.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-01 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-28 22:40 [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-28 23:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-28 23:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-29 1:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-29 1:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-29 10:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-29 17:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-29 17:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-29 19:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-30 12:13 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-30 13:20 ` David Newall
2007-08-30 17:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-29 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-30 19:32 ` Rob Landley
2007-08-30 18:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-30 18:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-30 23:22 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-01 22:16 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-09-02 8:44 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-02 8:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-02 11:05 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-02 19:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-02 20:00 ` Al Viro
2007-09-02 21:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-03 8:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-03 9:16 ` Al Viro
2007-08-29 4:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-30 18:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-29 4:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-29 5:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
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