Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946207AbWJSQdo (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:33:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946208AbWJSQdo (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:33:44 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:7830 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946207AbWJSQdn (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:33:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call From: Alan Cox To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Cal Peake , Andrew Morton , Randy Dunlap , Jan Beulich , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <453519EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20061017091901.7193312a.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1161123096.5014.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061017150016.8dbad3c5.akpm@osdl.org> <1161169330.9363.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:35:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1161275715.17335.92.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 23 Ar Iau, 2006-10-19 am 09:09 -0600, ysgrifennodd Eric W. Biederman: > > Not the core basic ones that are those people care about > > I agree. It just appears that the core basic ones that people > care about is the empty set. You should read linux-kernel or the other lists and look at the complaints the deprecation caused, its not an empty set. It isn't a large set apparently either however. > > ** the sysctl() binary interface. However this interface > > ** is unstable and deprecated and will be removed in the future. > > ** For a stable interface use /proc/sys. This is a bit self-referential and self-inflicted. I wish to deprecate it wrongly because there is a comment that it is deprecated wrongly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/