On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:40:15PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> +When: September 2010
> +Option: CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
> +Why: The same information is available in a more convenient from
> + /proc/sys, and none of the sysctl variables appear to be
> + important performance wise.
> +
> + Binary sysctls are a long standing source of subtle kernel
> + bugs and security issues.
> +
> + When I looked several months ago all I could find after
> + searching several distributions were 5 user space programs and
> + glibc (which falls back to /proc/sys) using this syscall.
Umm, no way we're ever going to remove a syscall like this. Please
stop this deprecration crap. Just make sure no ones adds more binary
sysctls.
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