"Randy.Dunlap" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> aha, patch 1/2 and patch 2/2 would have helped that. :)
Sorry. I finally have found the original deprecation commit.
> commit 073cd7b5515a7f5b74dbb4917c717e3c390013e7
> Author: ak <ak>
> Date: Sat Jul 12 16:45:55 2003 +0000
>
> [PATCH] Deprecate numerical sysctl
>
> Deprecate the numerical sysctl name space. People can use /proc/sys
> instead.
>
> The numeric name space was never well maintained and especially
> in distribution kernels is not very consistent (everybody has their
> own extensions, conflicting with others). It's also a great
> source of rejects when merging patches. The name-based /proc/sys
> is a much better interface for this, which people should use instead.
>
> Discussion of this on l-k found no advocate for it, so it seems to not
> be very popular anyways.
>
> This patch deprecates numerical name space accesses to make it possible
> to remove them in the future. The only exception is kernel.version,
> which is used by glibc (this one has to be maintained forever)
>
> BKrev: 3f103b43JQH2fwSWpRLoTKziIiqH1w
The comment about kernel.version is odd. That information is available in
uname so I can't imagine why sys_sysctl would be an interesting source.
Also kernel.version is the compile string so it is pretty uninteresting
to glibc.
I guess if it is really needed someone will scream before the code gets
deleted completely.
Eric
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