Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:52:46 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl description spillover and also setting the sysctl ? Message-ID: <201111301152.47002.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20111125073630.GC7915@DataIX.net> References: <20111125073630.GC7915@DataIX.net>
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On Friday, November 25, 2011 2:36:30 am Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > Found a troubling result of the following and figured someone might want to take a look. > > Pay close attention to the output and behavior. > > sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole=0 > sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole > sysctl -d net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 > sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole > > > Is this expected ? should it not just display the description instead of adjusting ? as well not display the description like it is adjusting the description too ? Hah, cute. It should probably fail with an error if you do something like that, yes. -- John Baldwin
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