Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

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.

	-hpa
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