linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call

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Message-ID: <20191002161724.GI8560@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 Oct 2019 09:17:24 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call

There were some really old glibc versions that used the system call,
but I believe they have a reasonable fall back, and may not be used
much anymore.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

-Andi