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Message-ID: <p73lkbqvxp8.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date: 02 Sep 2007 00:16:03 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> writes:
>
> A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for space
> reasons. This would make that noticeably more painful.
I had a patch for a sysctl_name(2) for this a long time ago.
If it was a serious issue that could be reintroduced.
BTW sysctl(2) only needs to be quiet for a single sysctl used
by glibc.
-Andi
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