Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion. | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:40:51 -0600 |
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David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> writes:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> This isn't "Oh some apps are using it let's get them to stop, because >> it is inconvenient". This is "No apps seems to be using this, we >> keep goofing up the maintenance and no one notices, and so it is >> likely a source of security problems and other nasties" >> > > This first claim is not consistent with the next claim: > >> I have evidence that there are 1 or 2 open source applications using >> this (not counting the glibc weirdness). > > If may be unmaintainable but, apparently, it's not really unused.
Only in a strict mathematical sense. I seem to recall patches to those programs or seeing that it doesn't matter. Things are sufficient that I expect that in 2 years time when we revisit this. We won't be able to find anything that cares.
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