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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 2015 11:08:13 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r288981 - head/sbin/sysctl
Message-ID:  <20151007090812.GA91729@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <52FE118F-5C0E-4CC2-9078-27015D72315B@gmail.com>
References:  <201510070856.t978u2mZ048215@repo.freebsd.org> <52FE118F-5C0E-4CC2-9078-27015D72315B@gmail.com>

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On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 01:58:29AM -0700, NGie Cooper wrote:
> 
> > On Oct 7, 2015, at 01:56, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Author: bapt
> > Date: Wed Oct  7 08:56:01 2015
> > New Revision: 288981
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/288981
> > 
> > Log:
> >  Trim spaces at the end of the buffer before trying to convert it to an oid
> > 
> >  This allows to write entries in sysctl.conf with spaces before the '=' like
> >  kern.ipc.shmmax = 9663676416
> > 
> >  MFC after:	1 week
> >  Sponsored by:	Gandi.net
> 
> Won’t this cause issues if the intent of the original value is to have a space before the rest of the value, e.g.
> 
> sysctl my.oid=“ i really wanted a leading space”

Note that here I am only trimming spaces _before_ the = and I'm not touching the
parsing after the '=' for the exact reason you are raising.

Best regards,
Bapt

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