From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove sysctl syscall
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:10:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lj5uff3h.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBD9B7F.6040307@linux.intel.com> (Andi Kleen's message of "Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:22:07 +0200")
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> writes:
> On 10/19/2010 10:22 AM, Amerigo Wang wrote:
>> Remove the obsolete sysctl syscall. It was scheduled
>> to be removed in Sept.
>
>
> I thought at least older glibc was still using it? Did anyone check
> what happens if it sees no sysctl(2)?
It will fall back reading from /proc/sys.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 8:22 [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: refactor __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() Amerigo Wang
2010-10-19 8:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove sysctl syscall Amerigo Wang
2010-10-19 13:22 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-19 13:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-19 15:04 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-19 16:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-20 6:06 ` Cong Wang
2010-10-20 13:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-21 9:26 ` Cong Wang
2010-10-19 14:10 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-10-19 15:05 ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-20 5:41 ` Cong Wang
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