Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: remove sysctl syscall

[Andi Kleen]

 On 10/19/2010 4:10 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >   On 10/19/2010 10:22 AM, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> > > Remove the obsolete sysctl syscall. It was scheduled
> > > to be removed in Sept.
> >
> > I thought at least older glibc was still using it? Did anyone check
> > what happens if it sees no sysctl(2)?
> It will fall back reading from /proc/sys.

First that's slow (but ok), but that will fail if there is no /proc.

-Andi
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