linux-kernel - Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

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Date:	Sun, 4 Sep 2011 21:31:22 +0200
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
Subject: Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:40 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@...il.com> wrote:
> #define __NR_x32__sysctl

Do we really want sysctl?

Some quotes from it's man-page:
"Do not use this system call!  See NOTES."

"Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
syscall(2).

 Or rather... don't call it: use of this system call has long been
discouraged, and it is so unloved that it
 is likely to disappear in a future kernel version.  Remove it from
your programs  now;  use  the  /proc/sys
 interface instead."

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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