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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> My hypothesis. No one cares now.
>
> My observation. The way we have been maintaining the binary sysctl
> side of things using it is asking for your application to be broken in
> subtle and nasty ways.
>

I suspect the right thing to do is simply to make a list of the
supported binary sysctls, and automatically verify those numbers. Doing
that would alleviate these concerns, wouldn't break anything, and isn't
really that hard to do.

-hpa
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