On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> I guess the sysctl question has been answered then,
> especially since random normal apps use sysctl.
I have yet to find a _single_ app that really uses sysctl, actually. Can
you name one?
There's apparently some library functions that has used it in the past,
and I've seen a few effects of that:
warning: process `wish' used the removed sysctl system call
but the users all had fallback positions, so I don't think anything
actually broke.
(The situation may be different with older libraries, which is why it's
still an option to compile in sysctl. None of the machines I had access
to cared at all, though).
Linus
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