On 27 May 2011, Michael Stone verbalised:

> 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.

Oh. Yeah. You're probably right. /proc/sys/net is still not deprecated
though, as far as I know, and can't be deprecated without breaking the
world.

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