Re: [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision

[H. Peter Anvin]

Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > The numerical namespace for sysctl is unsalvagable imho. e.g.
> > distributions regularly break it because there is no central
> > repository of numbers so it's not very usable anyways in practice.
>
> Huh? How exactly is this different from system call numbers,
> ioctl numbers, fcntl numbers, ptrace command numbers, and every
> other part of the Linux ABI?

Mostly because some branches of the sysctl tree have dynamic content 
which is hard to marshal into a numeric form.

	-hpa
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