Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > So if we removed the magic ID's (and sysctl(2)), Linus would be happy?
>
> The actual internal implementation of sysctl() is horribly unclear. I'd
> rather have a dentry tree where the dentries contain the filenames
> (obviously) and also the values (in the private field or in the inode).
> That makes adding and removing entries quite trivial.
>
This sounds like a job for Al Viro's detached filesystem tree
modifications. Seriously. The more things like this crop up, the more
I'm starting to appreciate how that simplifies life: without them, we
couldn't start build the dentry tree until the filesystem is mounted, at
which point we'll have had a bunch of registrations already.
-hpa
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