Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.17-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: none Hi,
I have set fs.protected_fifos=2 in /etc/sysctl.conf. My intent is to override procps' protect-links.conf, which sets fs.protected_fifos=1. Under systemd, /etc/sysctl.conf is actually loaded via the /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf symlink, which sorts before protect-links.conf, so the distro setting from protect-links.conf overrides the custom value I've set in /etc/sysctl.conf. I find this counter-intuitive: I would expect whatever I write in /etc/sysctl.conf to override distro defaults. This has historically been the case, and at least one system management tool I'm using (a Puppet module) operates under the same assumption. I understand this assumption still works fine in every other case in Debian, because: - The name of the /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf symlink starts with "99", which should sort last if all other such *.conf files have names that start with NN < 99. - All other packages that ship files in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/ call these files NN-*.conf, with N < 99. The only exception in the archive is procps, which does not use such a numeric prefix, and thus makes this assumption incorrect wrt. the contents of protect-links.conf. Would you mind renaming protect-links.conf to NN-protect-links.conf, with NN < 99? Thanks for maintaining procps, and thanks in advance for considering my request :) Cheers! -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (2, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_USER Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages procps depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.60 ii libc6 2.31-9 ii libncurses6 6.2+20201114-2 ii libncursesw6 6.2+20201114-2 ii libprocps8 2:3.3.17-1 ii libtinfo6 6.2+20201114-2 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc 23.4-2 procps suggests no packages.
