Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:23:25 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix for binary_sysctl() memory leak | From | Michel Lespinasse <> |
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote: > Calling sysctl(2) is very rare. I don't know if it actually happens > anywhere with a modern userspace except in regression tests. > Effectively we retain sysctl(2) because it doesn't take too much to > maintain.
Agree, there is no good reason one would call sysctl() anymore.
> Michel what caused you to discover this bug? If you are using > sysctl(2) in production code I am a bit worried.
Well, somebody hit it :) To be honest, I'm not sure how they came to do that. It wasn't in a datacenter setting.
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