Re: [CFT] Grep to find users of sys_sysctl.

[Russell King]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:05:18AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Anyone who is interested in knowing if they have an application on
> their system that actually uses sys_sysctl please run the following grep.
> 
> find / -type f  -perm /111 -exec fgrep 'sysctl@@GLIBC' '{}' ';' 
> 
> The -perm /111 is an optimization to only look at executable files,
> and may be omitted if you are patient.
> 
> Currently I don't expect anyone to find a match anywhere except in libpthreads,
> if you find any others please let me know.

glibc on ARM _requires_ sys_sysctl for userspace ioperm, inb, outb etc
emulation.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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