Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Glancing over these as I was doing the FreeBSD patch, I noticed some scope for modernization there plus a possible error to correct:
i) we could standardize the change method to use sysctl instead of echo'ing things into /proc/kernel/* structures (unless there is some reason for this to be preferable?)
How far back in Linux history does that work? It would be bad to remove instructions needed for versions that people are still using. But yeah, if we can standardize on describing sysctl that's probably a good thing, since it applies to more than one platform.
Interesting question (goes away to look at old linux distros...). Some quite old ones have a sysctl binary - e.g. Redhat 6.2 / linux 2.2.14.
But to be on the safe side, it would make sense to do something similar to the BSD section, and comment about older distributions maybe needing to manipulate /proc/kernel/* directly.
regards
Mark
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