Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl

[Eric W. Biederman]

Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:21:13PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > Eric, do you have a list of the remaining users? It'd be good to know for 
>> > people using Linux in an embedded environment, where they may want to switch
>> > off the option, but only if it doesn't break their userspace.
>> 
>> They are very very few.  The ones I recall are kudzu, radvd, and
>> libpthreads (which doesn't care).  
>
> Let's not forget that on ARM it's used to get the MMIO region which
> is used for PIO emulation by glibc.  Without it, glibc can't detect
> where this region is.

Is that on all subarches or just some of them?

But given the scarcity of the list this is certainly one of the
significant known users.

Eric
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