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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:30:37 +0200 From: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@...aki.hu> To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it>, Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "akpm@...l.org" <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 + hotfix -- Many processes use the sysctl system call On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:23:54PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > "fixed"? Why is sysctl being removed in the middle of a stable kernel > series?!? IMHO the stable series is 2.6.x.y nowadays. 2.6.z (without a fourth number) is more or less what used to be 2.<odd> previously. > I thought the new golden rule was "don't break userspace"? AFAIK nothing is broken, but the messages are annoying. Especially since 99.9% of the time they're caused not by the applications but by glibc. So the message should be heavily rate limited at least, if that's not already done. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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