* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

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> Ok.  I missed that.  Duh.  I just saw Andrews drop message.
> 
> This looks like Alexey respun my patch, or else we were thinking on 
> parallel paths.  Probably parallel given Alexey's dislike of using the 
> CTL_UNNUMBERED define.
> 
> There are two remaining gotchas:
> - The directories have impossible permissions (writeable).
> 
> - The ctl_name for the kernel directory is inconsistent with
>   everything else.  It should be CTL_KERN.

thx, i've applied your patch to my tree.

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> I kind of feel bad about being so picky but the this code is the only 
> place in the kernel where I have seen us violate either of those 
> rules, and it is a lot easier to deal with things when they are 
> consistent.

sure enough, i'm not opposed at all to fixing these issues. We should 
move your debug-sysctl-bugs patch upstream ASAP.

	Ingo
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