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

Andrew Morton
2006-10-20T16:39:28Z

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:54:43 -0600
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> > 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...
>
> What were you using for search criteria?
>
> A challenge is to weed out code that runs on BSDs where people do use sysctl.

I just used "sysctl" and clicked a lot.

>From a quick scan:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+sysctl+linux+-glibc+show:ezM3VpAIwOY:VqU4ELp0K4A:GC7QFUptQys&sa=N&cd=51&ct=rc&cs_p=http://www.xorp.org/releases/0.2/xorp-0.2.tar.gz&cs_f=xorp-0.2/ospfd/linux/system.C#a0

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+sysctl+-glibc+show:dPzMrf8geLs:EbNoGzoYDAc:I-_8YloL1fY&sa=N&cd=11&ct=rc&cs_p=http://www.openwall.com/scanlogd/lib/libnet-1.1.3-RC-01.tar.gz&cs_f=libnet/src/libnet_link_bpf.c#a0

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+sysctl+-glibc+show:QQ2BcrelppE:zZeMmMrGko0:BFmHNHvdqyA&sa=N&cd=17&ct=rc&cs_p=http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BR/BRYCE/Test-Parser-1.4.tar.gz&cs_f=Test-Parser-1.4/lib/Test/Parser/Sysctl.pm#a0

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+sysctl+-glibc+show:yqt7gBTAktI:350f8_WXUz8:J6r1Ge4gTiw&sa=N&cd=23&ct=rc&cs_p=http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/tarballs/apsl/top-9.tar.gz&cs_f=top-9/libtop.c#a0

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+sysctl+-glibc+show:-9-E1kR2zW0:HD_LhbY9gNM:Wt7DONTBSR4&sa=N&cd=65&ct=rc&cs_p=http://sparemint.atariforge.net/sparemint/mint/kernel/1.15.12/freemint-1.15.12-src.tar.gz&cs_f=freemint-1.15.12/tools/sysctl/sysctl.c#a0

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+sysctl+-glibc+show:A8hxeTvi8Lc:rlNCNnWdQuo:lUO9tYzCStY&sa=N&cd=102&ct=rc&cs_p=http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/OpenLDAP-69.0.2.tar.gz&cs_f=OpenLDAP-69.0.2/OpenLDAP/libraries/liblutil/uuid.c#a0

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+sysctl+-glibc+show:8eVH0Ss2hrY:Yg_zU6fz4U8:akq5ZzLPf34&sa=N&cd=107&ct=rc&cs_p=ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/arla/arla-0.42.tar.gz&cs_f=arla-0.42/lib/roken/getdtablesize.c#a0

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+sysctl+-glibc+show:NXzHfAnEMjg:ZIWovlf1IWU:WZdEzr-Zs0o&sa=N&cd=112&ct=rc&cs_p=http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/bind-9.3.2-P1.tar.gz&cs_f=bind-9.3.2-P1/lib/isc/unix/ifiter_sysctl.c#a0

Quite a lot of networking-related utilities. Including bind and openldap.