Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:28:01 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion. |
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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.
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