Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:57:25 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 22/23] sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support |
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On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:27:07 -0800 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> I just took a look and the use in linux threads that I don't warn > about is used by glibc-2.8 but not by glibc-2.10. glibc-2.11 has just > been released. so by next year when the removal is scheduled we are > looking at multiple releases of glibc that don't use sys_sysctl. So I > expect shortly I can warn about all uses of sys_sysctl without anyone > seeing a warning.
hmmmmm it's still an ABI break, and while you say "oh it's 3 glibcs ago".. there's the static linking case.
to be honest, I don't think we can ever remove things that are used by glibc during its startup....
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