Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:42:25 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision |
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Albert Cahalan wrote: >> >> The numerical namespace for sysctl is unsalvagable imho. e.g. >> distributions regularly break it because there is no central >> repository of numbers so it's not very usable anyways in practice. > > Huh? How exactly is this different from system call numbers, > ioctl numbers, fcntl numbers, ptrace command numbers, and every > other part of the Linux ABI? >
Mostly because some branches of the sysctl tree have dynamic content which is hard to marshal into a numeric form.
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