Re: [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call

[Andi Kleen]

Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Its very simple: sysctl was a neat BSD syscall that turned out to be
> less ideal than using the fs for it. We added it, we supported it, we
> get to keep it. We just stick notes in the docs saying "please use /proc
> instead".

You call that numerical name space neat?  IMHO it was a totally bogus
idea. There is already a perfectly fine file system name space, why
add another one?

Anyways, imho the right solution is to remove the numerical
sysctl infrastructure (including most of sysctl.h), but keep
sys_sysctl() with a small mapping table that maps the few
numerical sysctls (mostly KERN_VERSION) that are actually used to 
path names internally. The rest should be ENOSYS.

-Andi
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