Eric W. Biederman wrote:
My hypothesis. No one cares now. My observation. The way we have been maintaining the binary sysctl side of things using it is asking for your application to be broken in subtle and nasty ways.
I suspect the right thing to do is simply to make a list of the supported binary sysctls, and automatically verify those numbers. Doing that would alleviate these concerns, wouldn't break anything, and isn't really that hard to do.
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