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. -- NULL && (void) _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
