Talk:Sysctl

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Just to make things a bit more obvious, the page history suggests that this was marked as needing a rewrite due to being a text dump by Mike Rosoft, 10:34, 12 September 2005. I'd guess that the rewrite should aim to express important points, with a few examples (I'm going on something like fstab or Filesystem Hierarchy Standard). Gringer 12:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

That's basically what I've tried to do; probably could use some expansion, but I've removed most of the "tuning guide" (though I used some information from it). Demi T/C 07:28, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

The -w option has been deprecated in FreeBSD since version 5.x (the current version as I write is 6.1). Is this flag still used in NetBSD & OpenBSD? If not, then the article needs to be updated. (Well, even if so, it probably needs updating to reflect that detail.) -- llywrch 20:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Dubious
According to this Mar 22, 2010 comment by neilbrown, linux sysctl is not implemented on top of sysfs. In fact, there is no source for any of the linux information. Kingdon (talk) 15:21, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

I guess it's implemented using /proc, just try strace sysctl -a, it opens lots of /proc... --LtWorf (talk) 01:05, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Linux also has the syscall, it's just not part of libc. --70.36.235.232 (talk) 19:06, 20 Jan 2011