Re: sysctl

[Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>]

On Wed, Oct 18, Cal Peake wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Agreed, nothing seems to have broken by removing it but the warnings sure 
> are ugly. Is there any reason to have them? If a program relies on sysctl 
> and the call fails the program should properly handle the error. That 
> should be all the warning that's needed (i.e. report the broken program 
> and get it fixed).

You will not see the warning for your failing app anyway due to the max
tries == 5 limit. With SLES10 the boot scripts trigger it already.
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