Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:31:41 +0200 | From | Michal Piotrowski <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm2: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl system call |
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Hi Andrew,
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:40:36 +0200 > Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote: > >> After installing a 2.6.18-rc1-mm2 kernel without sysctl syscall support >> on a standard SuSE 10.0 system, I find the following in my dmesg: >> >>> [ 36.955720] warning: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl system call >>> [ 39.656410] warning: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl system call >>> [ 43.304401] warning: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl system call >>> [ 45.717220] warning: process `ls' used the removed sysctl system call >>> [ 45.789845] warning: process `touch' used the removed sysctl system call >> which at face value seems to contradict the statement in the help text >> for the CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL option that "Nothing has been using the >> binary sysctl interface for some time time now". (sic) >> >> Meanwhile, the second part of that sentence that "nothing should break" >> by disabling it seems to hold true anyway. The system runs fine, and >> activating CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL in the kernel doesn't seem to have any >> effect apart from changing the word "removed" to "obsolete" in the above >> messages. > > Thanks. >
date and salsa also use sysctl.
warning: process `date' used the removed sysctl system call warning: process `salsa' used the removed sysctl system call
> Eric, that tends to make the whole idea inviable, doesn't it?
How about _very_ long term to remove sysctl (i.e. January 2010)?
Regards, Michal
-- Michal K. K. Piotrowski LTG - Linux Testers Group (http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/wiki/)
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotowski@gmail.com>
diff -uprN -X linux-mm/Documentation/dontdiff linux-mm-clean/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysctl linux-mm/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysctl --- linux-mm-clean/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysctl 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-mm/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysctl 2006-07-16 01:22:51.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +What: sys_sysctl +Date: January 2010 +Contact: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> +Description: + sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found to be a major + pain to maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys is now + the primary and what everyone uses. + + Nothing has been using the binary sysctl interface for some time + time now so nothing should break if you disable sysctl syscall + support, and you kernel will get marginally smaller. + +Users: + +date, ls, salsa, showconsole, touch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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