From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "akpm@osdl.org" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 + hotfix -- Many processes use the sysctl system call
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:45:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155854702.8796.97.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a44ae5cd0608171541tf2f125dl586f56da6f1b2a41@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 15:41 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> My installation of Ubuntu is having trouble with my kernel build
> because I disabled support for sysctl:
>
> warning: process `ls' used the removed sysctl system call
> warning: process `touch' used the removed sysctl system call
> warning: process `touch' used the removed sysctl system call
> warning: process `evms_activate' used the removed sysctl system call
> warning: process `alsactl' used the removed sysctl system call
>
> I am curious whether the use of sysctl indicates a problem in these
> processes. What is the benefit of offering disabling sysctl support?
To make the kernel smaller for people who don't need sysctl.
Apparently, you need it.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-17 22:41 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 + hotfix -- Many processes use the sysctl system call Miles Lane
2006-08-17 22:45 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-08-18 14:46 ` Mattia Dongili
2006-08-18 16:23 ` Lee Revell
2006-08-18 17:00 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-19 0:30 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-08-19 2:40 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2006-08-19 0:49 ` Lee Revell
2006-08-18 10:30 ` Frederik Deweerdt
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