Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:35:22 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] Deprecate sysctl(2), add sysctl_name |
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Andi Kleen wrote: > > This patch deprecates sysctl(2) by adding a printk to it. There is one > important user of it - glibc checks kernel.version in the startup code - > which is still handled without message. This needs to be still handled, > but the hope is that there are no other users of the numerical interface.
I'd prefer to first _only_ deprecate it, and if somebody really really decides that they want another interface than /proc too, we can re-visit the thing then.
I doubt there is any real reason to not just use the /proc interface, and I dislike pre-emptive engineering.
Linus
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