Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:08:54 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:59, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 14:41 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen: > > It's less work long term, mostly because all the rejects for sysctl.h will > > go away. And it's more compatible than just removing sysctl(2) completely. > > What rejects for sysctl.h, nobody is going to add new entries to > sysctl(2) so there will be no rejects.
Yes, but it still means the bizarre register_sysctl() call convention has to be maintained internally.
If the existing sysctl.c/sysctl.h stuff wasn't needed anymore this could be replaced with a sane
register_sysctl_name("a/b/c", &sysctl_struct)
and clean up a lot of code.
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