From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: removed sysctl system call - documentation and timeline
Date: 05 Oct 2006 00:41:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73u02jzot0.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490610041335t519678d1u61f5775293c061e4@mail.gmail.com>
"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> With recent kernels I'm getting a lot of warnings about programs using
> the removed sysctl syscal.
>
> Examples (after 5 min of uptime here) :
> root@dragon:/home/juhl# dmesg | grep "used the removed sysctl system
> call" | sort | uniq
> warning: process `dd' used the removed sysctl system call
> warning: process `ls' used the removed sysctl system call
> warning: process `touch' used the removed sysctl system call
>
> and more can be found...
They all only use a single sysctl (kernel/version). IMHO that
one should be just emulated and the rest -ENOSYSed. There used
to be a slightly buggy patch for that in tree.
I think that would give all the advantages (dropping of the
numerical name space) with 99+% backwards compatibility
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 20:35 Jesper Juhl
2006-10-04 20:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-04 20:50 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-04 21:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-04 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04 22:41 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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