On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:32:42PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>I think you got that backwards. The sysctl() syscall is very, very
>deprecated, so deprecated that huge chunks of it are rotten and
>nonfunctional at any given time, so deprecated that most of it has been
>torn out and replaced with code that uses /proc/sys/net instead (as of
>commit 77b14db502cb85a031fe8fde6c85d52f3e0acb63).

I think he's refering to sysctl(8) rather than sysctl(2), meaning to use 
a config file rather than manually echoing to /proc. Yes, that was a 
stupid name for the command.

Mike Stone
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