Re: [CFT] Grep to find users of sys_sysctl.

Andrew Morton
2006-10-20T07:35:51Z

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...