On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 11:10 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore > <free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote: > > ... > > > Instead of running sysctl a bunch of times, how about something > > conceptually similar to > > > > cat /etc/sysctl.d/* /etc/sysctl.conf | sysctl -f - > > > > Along with this (untested) patch to make sysctl understand "-f -". > > > > Hmmm, is /dev/stdin available as early as sysctl.conf runs? If not, the > > attached patch isn't going to work. > > Why not just make sysctl understand multiple -f options? You're > probably going to run into more problems parsing from /dev/stdin and > it's going to obfuscate things a lot dealing with which file came > last, feeding back diagnostic info, etc. > Please don't "linuxise" this tool. > Thanks, > -Garrett
Hrm. I would consider enhancing a program to accept data on stdin, thereby allowing complex tasks to be efficiently accomplished using pipelines of simple tools, to be more "unix-ising" than "linux-ising". -- Ian _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
