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

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 16:00:46 EST


On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> - I think all that is left is superblock handling and some backward
> compatibility magic. (Using the follow_link trick to automatically
> mount /proc/sys)

NAK. Let's explicitly mount this stuff in init scripts; it won't break
on older kernels and there's no excuse for that kind of kludges in the
kernel.
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