Re: Sysctl syscall

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On Nov 16 2006 00:03, Hasso Tepper wrote:
>
>Compiling the program which uses a lot "sysctl" syscalls, gives me this 
>warning on Debian unstable:
>
>"warning: the `sysctl' syscall has been removed from 2.6.18+ kernels, 
>direct access to `/proc/sys' should be used instead."
>
>Is it true?

Well it was unobsoleted in 2.6.19 if I followed the list correctly.

>And what can be used as alternative which would work with both 
>2.4 and 2.6 kernels
>and would work with capabilities (sys/capability.h)?
>Accessing `/proc/sys' directly isn't such alternative as it doesn't work 
>with capabilities.



	-`J'
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