Re: [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision

Albert Cahalan wrote:

The numerical namespace for sysctl is unsalvagable imho. e.g.
distributions regularly break it because there is no central
repository of numbers so it's not very usable anyways in practice.

Huh? How exactly is this different from system call numbers,
ioctl numbers, fcntl numbers, ptrace command numbers, and every
other part of the Linux ABI?

Mostly because some branches of the sysctl tree have dynamic content which is hard to marshal into a numeric form.

	-hpa
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