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To: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:19:43PM -0500, Rob Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:16, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > What user-modifiable attributes?
> 
> See /proc/sys/kernel/random
> 
> Junk like that should be ripped from procfs and put in sysfs
> corresponding to its device file.

Junk like that is called "sysctl" and is a part of userland ABI.