Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758413AbXH2BgI (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:36:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752817AbXH2Bf5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:35:57 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49417 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752955AbXH2Bf4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:35:56 -0400 Message-ID: <46D4CC81.4060400@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:31:45 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion. References: <20070828230459.GA15937@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 24 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > >> Umm, no way we're ever going to remove a syscall like this. > > If someone besides me cares about more then rhetoric I will be happy > to reconsider and several years is plenty of time to find that out. > > I aborted the removal last time precisely because we had not done an > adequate job of warning our users. A printk when we run a program > that uses the binary interface and an long enough interval the warning > makes it to the Enterprise kernels before we remove the interface > should be sufficient. > glibc uses it, and it uses it in contexts where access to the filesystem isn't functional (e.g. in chroot.) -hpa - 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/