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
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).
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
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,
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:
#
