linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm2: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl system call

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Date:	Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:42:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm2: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl
 system call

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:40:36 +0200
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> wrote:

> After installing a 2.6.18-rc1-mm2 kernel without sysctl syscall support
> on a standard SuSE 10.0 system, I find the following in my dmesg:
> 
> > [   36.955720] warning: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl system call
> > [   39.656410] warning: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl system call
> > [   43.304401] warning: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl system call
> > [   45.717220] warning: process `ls' used the removed sysctl system call
> > [   45.789845] warning: process `touch' used the removed sysctl system call
> 
> which at face value seems to contradict the statement in the help text
> for the CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL option that "Nothing has been using the
> binary sysctl interface for some time time now". (sic)
> 
> Meanwhile, the second part of that sentence that "nothing should break"
> by disabling it seems to hold true anyway. The system runs fine, and
> activating CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL in the kernel doesn't seem to have any
> effect apart from changing the word "removed" to "obsolete" in the above
> messages.

Thanks.

Eric, that tends to make the whole idea inviable, doesn't it?
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