From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932427AbWGLSZz (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:25:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932362AbWGLSZy (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:25:54 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:35239 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932427AbWGLSZB (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:25:01 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Allow /proc/sys without sys_sysctl Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:24:32 -0700 Organization: OSDL Message-ID: <20060712112432.0cd5996f@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> References: <200607121652.21920.ak@suse.de> <200607121808.26555.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: build.pdx.osdl.net 1152728672 14194 10.8.0.74 (12 Jul 2006 18:24:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@osdl.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:24:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.19; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org What is the motivation behind killing the sys_sysctl call anyway? Sure its more ugly esthetically but it works. Is it because of the desire to virtualize all namespaces?