From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:57:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m17inczw86.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070830183402.GA17084@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:34:02 +0100")
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:32:11PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>> (If sysctlfs wasn't part of proc, that would be less of an issue, but we need
>> union mounts for that...)
>
> Not at all. all sysctls are under /proc/sys/
Yes. So all we really need to do is split them apart and do the nfs multiple
mount thing to maintain backwards compatibility when mounting proc.
The code is close enough to split apart now that it probably would not be
to difficult to finish the job.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-30 18:58 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 [this message]
2007-08-30 23:22 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-01 22:16 ` Andi Kleen
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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