Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Undeprecate the sysctl system call | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:15:41 +0100 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-10-18 am 13:33 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen: > You call that numerical name space neat? IMHO it was a totally bogus > idea. There is already a perfectly fine file system name space, why > add another one?
The sysctl number space came first and when it appeared it was neat
> Anyways, imho the right solution is to remove the numerical > sysctl infrastructure (including most of sysctl.h), but keep > sys_sysctl() with a small mapping table that maps the few > numerical sysctls (mostly KERN_VERSION) that are actually used to > path names internally. The rest should be ENOSYS.
More work for less compatibility, that doesn't sound very clever.
Alan
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