Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jul 1999 00:29:09 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: Death of KERN_JAVA_* sysctl |
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On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 12:11:48AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 01:12:57PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote: > > > Why have KERN_JAVA_* been removed from linux/sysctl.h? (as of 2.3.9) > > > > This is a problem for anything in userspace that uses these values; it > > won't compile anymore, and since it's an enum there's no way to check > > for it. (strace uses them, for one.) > > It's not the first time that sysctl got broken that way.
Last time sysctl got broken that way, I went through and explicitly numbered all the sysctls. Someone would now have to be particularly and obviously stupid to break sysctl.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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