I wouldn't miss it...

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:49:15AM -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
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> > if it's use is far from recommended, indeed rather forbidden,
> > why is it left to rot?
> 
> It is left there for historical reasons, because some old applications
> may use it.
> 
> For new applications we do not use it, but prefer to use a properly
> designed sysctl or ioctl
> interface to retrieve information from the kernel.