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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-06-12 14:32:08 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-06-12 14:32:08 +0200
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Linux: Deprecate <sys/sysctl.h> and sysctl
Now that there are no internal users of __sysctl left, it is possible
to add an unconditional deprecation warning to <sys/sysctl.h>.

To avoid a test failure due this warning in check-install-headers,
skip the test for sys/sysctl.h.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/sysctl.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/sysctl.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/sysctl.h
index 0f6e71ba7e..be34555668 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/sysctl.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/sysctl.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 #ifndef	_SYS_SYSCTL_H
 #define	_SYS_SYSCTL_H	1
 
+#warning "The <sys/sysctl.h> header is deprecated and will be removed."
+
 #include <features.h>
 #define __need_size_t
 #include <stddef.h>
@@ -66,7 +68,8 @@ __BEGIN_DECLS
 
 /* Read or write system parameters.  */
 extern int sysctl (int *__name, int __nlen, void *__oldval,
-		   size_t *__oldlenp, void *__newval, size_t __newlen) __THROW;
+		   size_t *__oldlenp, void *__newval, size_t __newlen) __THROW
+  __attribute_deprecated__;
 
 __END_DECLS