Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:07:38 -0800 From: Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Andrey Zonov <zont@freebsd.org>, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl Message-ID: <50D23AAA.9070804@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wRzpQO_gBHNVF2LVfue7uf5KYRTDo3J0Y1d5ebw0TFyDg@mail.gmail.com> References: <201212132332.qBDNWmK4037503@svn.freebsd.org> <50D1D720.80206@FreeBSD.org> <1355931456.1198.203.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CAGH67wRfd0CcHZA5kwmdnyyTvinXyXubqVuX_FLwJ1RuMH=ZnA@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo839wcmrXXUD5FXGYJw3s5qW0%2BurYWOdUaCpdCkjFYxVTHA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wRzpQO_gBHNVF2LVfue7uf5KYRTDo3J0Y1d5ebw0TFyDg@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 12/19/12 13:08, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On 19 Dec 2012 19:37, "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore >>> <freebsd@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. >> >> I seem to recall cpio being around a lot before Linux... Our sh >> also accepts piped scripts. It's useful. > > Yes, but it just compresses data and doesn't have to necessarily > backtrack in order to do so. > >> ssh host cat file | sysctl -f - > > I prefer: > > ssh host cat file > foo sysctl -f foo > > ... and my bikesheds navy blue. Vulnerable to temporary file attacks (which is relatively easy to mitigate with mkstemp, though) and poor error handling. Cheers, - -- Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> https://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJQ0jqqAAoJEG80Jeu8UPuzBiMH/3EF1cDUcjpa9+k7OAPmJx89 PGQhy64QH5CZiztTFMpHsywaAJSr/5LeR/28SdP4YRB67P4IeSLFgRsB+6XqmCJz cwtuYmZKiorjUhZ9jojwuYG+tab/dRFit46oqk5FujVE8FPhvvBcDpwVyX5vXfsX HHUyks49pjx/pTFGldb6BxZ9Gp9OZyNXgAM5/RLAW/NLYMEksSp2z4YUquYIZYeh 8ZWsdpQKLFRXv3XG1pnpNYinoKjJ5Khxi6J10yrrOnBdUE1d0VBbMb5BdrBui65I bQVBTNPnoIQEYP2HtLybL5nnpwvX23ujLDQOxOA6/HtEUz6+206s9JHjRTTWOnc= =+9Qv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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