Re: Death of KERN_JAVA_* sysctl

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 00:29:09 +0200

On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 12:11:48AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 01:12:57PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
> > Why have KERN_JAVA_* been removed from linux/sysctl.h? (as of 2.3.9)
> >
> > This is a problem for anything in userspace that uses these values; it
> > won't compile anymore, and since it's an enum there's no way to check
> > for it. (strace uses them, for one.)
>
> It's not the first time that sysctl got broken that way.

Last time sysctl got broken that way, I went through and explicitly
numbered all the sysctls. Someone would now have to be particularly
and obviously stupid to break sysctl.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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