> I'm only trying to push back on the claim that Linux has a pristine and principled record in this regard For sure, I agree that Linux's record isn't perfectl

> I'm only trying to push back on the claim that Linux has a pristine and principled record in this regard For sure, I agree that Linux's record isn't perfectly clean. Just wanted to point out that if you were hit by that removal, part of the blame is on you. > Do you have a link to a 2001 manual page? I got it from the oldest manpages package from archive.debian.org. The git history on kernel.org doesn't go as far back. The note I was referring to was the following: BUGS The object names vary between kernel versions. THIS MAKES THIS SYSTEM CALL WORTHLESS FOR APPLICATIONS. Use the /proc/sys interface instead. Which in 2007 got replaced with the following (partly bolded): NOTES Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using syscall(2). Or rather... don't call it: use of this system call has long been discouraged, and it is so unloved that it is likely to disappear in a future kernel version. Remove it from your programs now; use the /proc/sys interface instead.