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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
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   From: "William R. Somsky" <somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu>
   Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:26:04 -0800 (PST)

   Hmm...  But do we really want a kernel(2) item to be reading stuff from
   the environment?  Does any other "section-two" call use environmental
   information?  If not, I'd argue against using any env info here.

This is the sort of thing that procfs root writable only tunables are
for.