From owner-svn-src-head@freebsd.org Sat Mar 10 03:47:20 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5394EF46458; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:47:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from hz.grosbein.net (hz.grosbein.net [78.47.246.247]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "hz.grosbein.net", Issuer "hz.grosbein.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C090380288; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:47:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from eg.sd.rdtc.ru (root@eg.sd.rdtc.ru [62.231.161.221] (may be forged)) by hz.grosbein.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w2A3l6WM069900 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 10 Mar 2018 04:47:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) X-Envelope-From: eugen@grosbein.net X-Envelope-To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Received: from [10.58.0.4] ([10.58.0.4]) by eg.sd.rdtc.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w2A3kvkb069422 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:46:57 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Subject: Re: svn commit: r330711 - head/sbin/sysctl To: John Baldwin , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org References: <201803092337.w29NbJSX093826@repo.freebsd.org> From: Eugene Grosbein Message-ID: <5AA3552D.5080203@grosbein.net> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:46:53 +0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201803092337.w29NbJSX093826@repo.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, LOCAL_FROM, RDNS_NONE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Report: * -2.3 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 1.9 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS * 2.6 LOCAL_FROM From my domains X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on hz.grosbein.net X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:47:20 -0000 10.03.2018 6:37, John Baldwin wrote: > Author: jhb > Date: Fri Mar 9 23:37:19 2018 > New Revision: 330711 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/330711 > > Log: > Permit sysctl(8) to set an array of numeric values for a single node. > > Most sysctl nodes only return a single value, but some nodes return an > array of values (e.g. kern.cp_time). sysctl(8) understand how to display > the values of a node that returns multiple values (it prints out each > numeric value separated by spaces). However, until now sysctl(8) has > only been able to set sysctl nodes to a single value. This change > allows sysctl to accept a new value for a numeric sysctl node that contains > multiple values separated by either spaces or commas. sysctl(8) parses > this list into an array of values and passes the array as the "new" value > to sysctl(2). Note well: we already have some examples of complex sysctl comma-separated "list" values such as: security.mac.portacl.rules=uid:53:tcp:53,uid:53:udp:53