linux-kernel - Re: removed sysctl system call

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Date:	Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:45:10 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: removed sysctl system call - documentation and timeline

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> ohhh, and correct the help text; it currently says
> "...Nothing has been using the binary sysctl interface for some time
> now so nothing should break if you disable sysctl syscall support" -
> that's obviously false as demonstrated by the above extract from my
> dmesg...
>

It's half true.  It's true that things try to use it, but they'll 
happily fall back to something else (/proc?) if it doesn't work.  I used 
to get those messages, but it appears that recent glibcs don't use it at 
all.

    J
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