linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove sysctl syscall

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Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:06:24 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@...ia.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove sysctl syscall

On 10/20/10 00:00, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge the last and user of sys_sysctl is the glibc
> ioperm (my apologies I mispoke when I said iopl) implementation on arm.
> Not that people run around calling ioperm very often in any distro.


I saw that in Changelog of glibc too, but that was back to 2000, 10 years
past, I don't see any code using sysctl() in glibc now, except sys_sysctl()
itself, of course.

>
> All of that said I think disabling sys_sysctl by default now is totally
> reasonable.  If there is a percentage in removing the code we can worry
> about that later.  Perhaps we should add a CONFIG_CRUFT and move
> sys_sysctl under there.  Binary compatibility that nothing needs but
> that we actually have code for just in case.

But you put sysctl in features-removal-schedule.txt 3 years ago. :)

I believe they should see the kernel warnings if they are still using
sysctl.

Thanks.
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