Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

[H.J. Lu]

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:31 PM, richard -rw- weinberger
<richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:40 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> #define __NR_x32__sysctl
>
> Do we really want sysctl?
>
> Some quotes from it's man-page:
> "Do not use this system call!  See NOTES."
>
> "Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
> syscall(2).
>
>  Or rather... don't call it: use of this system call has long been
> discouraged, and it is so unloved that it
>  is likely to disappear in a future kernel version.  Remove it from
> your programs  now;  use  the  /proc/sys
>  interface instead."
>

I will remove it.

Thanks.


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H.J.
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