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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Allow /proc/sys without sys_sysctl
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 11:24 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> What is the motivation behind killing the sys_sysctl call anyway?
> Sure its more ugly esthetically but it works.

it "works" but the thing is that the number space is NOT stable, and as
such it's a really bad ABI