netdev - Re: route/max_size sysctl in ipv4

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Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2015 10:39:37 -0800
From:	Ani Sinha <ani@...sta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: route/max_size sysctl in ipv4

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 19:40 -0800, Ani Sinha wrote:
>
>> true but at least those scripts which does only read the values will
>> continue to function in a child namespace. In our case, our script
>> only reads the max_size sysctl but since it operates from within a
>> child namespace, it doesn't find it.
>>
>> thoughts?
>
> Fix your script,

But the whole point of keeping this sysctl still around is not to
break the userland scripts! If we are trying to achieve that, I think
we should go one step further and make sure that the sysctl is still
available for reading even in child namespaces (as it used to be the
case).
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