Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 20:58, Eric W. Biederman wrote:The basic issue is that despite have been ``deprecated'' andBut they only seem to use a small number of actually used with
warned about as a very bad thing in the man pages since it's
inception there are a few real users of sys_sysctl.
sysctl(2) sysctls.
I still think just maintaining a conversion table for those is the right thing to do.
I don't know. Every distinct user of the binary sysctl interface
used a different entry. So the fact that there are a small number of
programs and thus a small number of sysctls used I agree with. I do
not agree with the conclusion that we can predict the set of binary
sysctl that are in use. We do not get good enough feedback from
the user community.
I don't have a problem with the principle of a conversion table
if it meant that we would never add any additional binary sysctls.