Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:35:42 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: /proc guidelines and sysctl |
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > functions that can be used to add a block of /proc names. However, it > > has other downsides (allocating silly numbers etc - there should be no > > need for that, considering that the /proc namespace is alreayd a > > perfectly good namespace). > > Oh, please! All we need is sysctlbyname(2) - _not_ a problem, and closes > all problems with numbers. And it should not work through mounted procfs - > we can traverse the tree doing comparisons by name just fine. The fact > that sysctl(8) needs mounted procfs is an artificial misfeature, nothing > more.
I'll accept a patch that turns sysctl into a proc-only thing.
The current problem is that sysclt tries to be more than proc, and has its own name-space etc. Not worth it.
Linus
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