Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision | Date | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:33:05 -0600 |
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Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> That may be true, but it doesn't answer the question, what's the cost > of leaving in sys_sysctl in there for now?
Among other things the implementation of all of: CTL_KERN, {KERN_OSTYPE, KERN_OSRELEASE, KERN_OSREV, KERN_VERSION, KERN_SECUREMASK,KERN_PROF,KERN_NODENAME,KERN_DOMAINNAME } are broken in kernel/sysctl.c because the locking is missing.
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