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Re-deprecating sysctl()Re-deprecating sysctl()Posted Aug 30, 2007 1:07 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)Parent article: Re-deprecating sysctl() What if sysctl() were replaced by a library that performed the same functions by accessing the /proc/sys filesystem? Then the rotted code could be removed from the kernel but clients would continue to function. As long as the intent is to provide similar capabilities from /proc/sys, the code to do the translation from one to the other could live in userspace. After all, apps don't invoke the kernel directly, they go through glibc to do a sysctl().
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Re-deprecating sysctl() Posted Aug 30, 2007 10:09 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Well, glibc is one of the (very few) users, and although it does fall back to /proc/sys where needed, that's going to be both slower (more syscalls) and won't work in chroots or other environments where /proc may not be mounted.
And it's generally considered bad to require a new glibc with a new kernel...
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