Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visiblefashion.

[David Newall]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> This isn't "Oh some apps are using it let's get them to stop, because
> it is inconvenient".  This is  "No apps seems to be using this, we
> keep goofing up the maintenance and no one notices, and so it is
> likely a source of security problems and other nasties"
>   

This first claim is not consistent with the next claim:

> I have evidence that there are 1 or 2 open source applications using
> this (not counting the glibc weirdness).

If may be unmaintainable but, apparently, it's not really unused.
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