Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 à 13:59 +0200, Christoph Hellwig a écrit :
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> This patch breaks the binary sysctl ABI.  It probably doesn't matter
> as no one actually used it, but it might be better idea to just remove
> this node from the binary sysctl tree.
> 

Good point

To be precise, sysctl() truncates the value to low order 32bit value,
because it internally uses simple_strtoul(), then a put_user()

An old binary using sysctl() to fetch FS_MAXFILE could break on SGI
machines. I am not sure we should remove sysctl FS_MAXFILE because of
this rare case.



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