I do not see the value of this change.
jhx wrote:
> Thanks to all the suggestions/hints from Crystal Kolipe and Janne
> Johansson I made a few changes to the patch.
>
> This also fixes reading commented lines.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --- sysctl.c.dist Tue Feb 21 12:17:57 2023
> +++ sysctl.c Tue
jhx wrote on 2023-02-21 at 12:46:28:
> Thanks to all the suggestions/hints from Crystal Kolipe and Janne
> Johansson I made a few changes to the patch.
FYI, there is prior art.
ElectroBSD's sysctl inherited an -f option from FreeBSD:
| -f filename
| Specify a file which contai
A couple of comments,
> - while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "Aanqw")) != -1) {
> + while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "Aanpqw")) != -1) {
The use of -p as the flag seems a bit odd, -f would be my instinctive
choice - though it does match one of the three possibliities in Linux'
sysctl(8).
Fre
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:46:11PM +0100, Mike Fischer wrote:
>
> > Am 21.02.2023 um 12:00 schrieb Crystal Kolipe :
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 11:29:17AM +0100, jhx wrote:
> >> this patch adds the "-p" option to sysctl which makes it possible to
> >> read/parse/apply settings from /etc/sysct
Thanks to all the suggestions/hints from Crystal Kolipe and Janne
Johansson I made a few changes to the patch.
This also fixes reading commented lines.
Thanks!
--- sysctl.c.dist Tue Feb 21 12:17:57 2023
+++ sysctl.cTue Feb 21 13:41:13 2023
@@ -138,6 +138,9 @@
/* Maximum size object
> Am 21.02.2023 um 12:00 schrieb Crystal Kolipe :
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 11:29:17AM +0100, jhx wrote:
>> this patch adds the "-p" option to sysctl which makes it possible to
>> read/parse/apply settings from /etc/sysctl.conf at any time the user wishes.
>
> This is an interesting idea, but
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 11:29:17AM +0100, jhx wrote:
> this patch adds the "-p" option to sysctl which makes it possible to
> read/parse/apply settings from /etc/sysctl.conf at any time the user wishes.
This is an interesting idea, but you can effectively do the same thing
from the shell with:
#
Hello everyone,
this patch adds the "-p" option to sysctl which makes it possible to
read/parse/apply settings from /etc/sysctl.conf at any time the user
wishes. Normally, the sysctl.conf is only parsed during system boot via rc.
I've tested the patch on OpenBSD 7.2 amd64 and so far there have
