Hi, I don't know if this is a big issue for you, but when doing a `sysctl` call with a trailing period ("."), like `sysctl kern.`, I get an error like this:
sysctl: second level name in kern. is invalid
On other systems, if I do `sysctl XX.`, I get all the entries inside XX. We should fix it, and I have a patch. -Neel The diff is below: Index: sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c,v retrieving revision 1.259 diff -u -p -u -r1.259 sysctl.c --- sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c 17 May 2023 22:12:51 -0000 1.259 +++ sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c 29 Aug 2023 19:42:56 -0000 @@ -377,6 +377,8 @@ parse(char *string, int flags) (void)strlcpy(buf, string, sizeof(buf)); bufp = buf; + if (string[strlen(string) - 1] == '.') + buf[strlen(string) - 1] = '\0'; if ((cp = strchr(string, '=')) != NULL) { *strchr(buf, '=') = '\0'; *cp++ = '\0';