Re: [PATCHv2] Undeprecate the sysctl system call

[Andi Kleen]

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 18:20, Cal Peake wrote:

> -What:	sys_sysctl
> -When:	January 2007
> -Why:	The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the
> -	interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be
> -	any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl.  The additional
> -	maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets
> -	in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface.
> -
> -Who:	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I think the deprecation should stay.

-Andi
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