On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:48:15 pm Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:52:46AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday, November 25, 2011 2:36:30 am Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > > > > Found a troubling result of the following and figured someone might want > > > to > > take a look. > > > > > > Pay close attention to the output and behavior. > > > > > > sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole=0 > > > sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole > > > sysctl -d net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 > > > sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole > > > > > > > > > Is this expected ? should it not just display the description instead of > > adjusting ? as well not display the description like it is adjusting the > > description too ? > > > > Hah, cute. It should probably fail with an error if you do something like > > that, yes. > > > > Yeah thats what I thought about it to but the more I thought about it, if > it just displayed the values changing instead of the description when =N > is supplied I think that would be acceptable to. 0 -> 1 in this case. Or > possibly sys.oid: 0 -> 1 # <Description> since sysctl.conf(5) also takes > comments like that. > > Not really thats something at the top of the list for fixes though. Low > fruit. Food for thought.
I think it's simplest to just make -d force descriptions only and ignore settings. I've committed a one-line fix to sysctl(8) for that. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
