Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:50:10 +0930 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion. |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > This isn't "Oh some apps are using it let's get them to stop, because > it is inconvenient". This is "No apps seems to be using this, we > keep goofing up the maintenance and no one notices, and so it is > likely a source of security problems and other nasties" >
This first claim is not consistent with the next claim:
> I have evidence that there are 1 or 2 open source applications using > this (not counting the glibc weirdness).
If may be unmaintainable but, apparently, it's not really unused. - 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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