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-Except for a few extremely rare exceptions user space applications do not use
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-the binary sysctl interface. Instead everyone uses /proc/sys/... with
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-readable ascii names.
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-Recently the kernel has started supporting setting the binary sysctl value to
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-CTL_UNNUMBERED so we no longer need to assign a binary sysctl path to allow
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-sysctls to show up in /proc/sys.
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-Assigning binary sysctl numbers is an endless source of conflicts in sysctl.h,
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-breaking of the user space ABI (because of those conflicts), and maintenance
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-problems. A complete pass through all of the sysctl users revealed multiple
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-instances where the sysctl binary interface was broken and had gone undetected
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-for years.
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-So please do not add new binary sysctl numbers. They are unneeded and
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-problematic.
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-If you really need a new binary sysctl number please first merge your sysctl
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-into the kernel and then as a separate patch allocate a binary sysctl number.
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-(ebiederm@xmission.com, June 2007)
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