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

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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
This isn't "Oh some apps are using it let's get them to stop, because
it is inconvenient".  This is  "No apps seems to be using this, we
keep goofing up the maintenance and no one notices, and so it is
likely a source of security problems and other nasties"

This first claim is not consistent with the next claim:

I have evidence that there are 1 or 2 open source applications using
this (not counting the glibc weirdness).

If may be unmaintainable but, apparently, it's not really unused.
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