Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm2: process `showconsole' used the removed sysctl system call

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

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.

Eric, that tends to make the whole idea inviable, doesn't it?