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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Umm, no way we're ever going to remove a syscall like this.  
>
> If someone besides me cares about more then rhetoric I will be happy
> to reconsider and several years is plenty of time to find that out.
>
> I aborted the removal last time precisely because we had not done an
> adequate job of warning our users.  A printk when we run a program
> that uses the binary interface and an long enough interval the warning
> makes it to the Enterprise kernels before we remove the interface
> should be sufficient.

glibc uses it, and it uses it in contexts where access to the filesystem 
isn't functional (e.g. in chroot.)

	-hpa
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