Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 15:41:52 -0700 From: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r288984 - head/sbin/sysctl Message-ID: <CAGHfRMBV7%2BECQshL=F8XuASQDNr1FSwFix2aDd5cOa4ecF0yRQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20151007223533.GF91729@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <201510070928.t979SsMQ057994@repo.freebsd.org> <CAG6CVpVdOeUFg3cSffTKcn9T2SGvLMhERiesecwZ6aoeAjpLjA@mail.gmail.com> <20151007223533.GF91729@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: ... > I do not think it is, but I couldn't find a way to reproduce another case than > ENOENT, so I thought maybe the best would be to keep the current behaviour for > other cases :) Can't hit ENOTDIR: # sysctl kern=ireallyshouldnotbedoingthis sysctl: oid 'kern' isn't a leaf node Can't hit EPERM: # sysctl kern.boottime=1000 sysctl: oid 'kern.boottime' is read only Not sure how to hit EINVAL, other than maybe try and read a sysctl that dynamically populates itself (this might trigger ENOMEM errors though): # sysctl kern.i.am.a.fun.oid.or.something.like.that.yadda.yadda=1000 sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.i.am.a.fun.oid.or.something.like.that.yadda.yadda': No such file or directory FWIW I think Conrad's right though about fixing the message to be more meaningful in the errno != ENOENT case though. Thanks! -NGie
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