Re: removed sysctl system call - documentation and timeline

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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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