Re: sysctl

Linus Torvalds
2006-10-18T18:31:15Z

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> I guess the sysctl question has been answered then,
> especially since random normal apps use sysctl.

I have yet to find a _single_ app that really uses sysctl, actually. Can
you name one?

There's apparently some library functions that has used it in the past,
and I've seen a few effects of that:

warning: process `wish' used the removed sysctl system call

but the users all had fallback positions, so I don't think anything
actually broke.

(The situation may be different with older libraries, which is why it's
still an option to compile in sysctl. None of the machines I had access
to cared at all, though).

Linus