Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 23:45:05 +0100 From: Steven Hartland <steven.hartland@multiplay.co.uk> To: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, 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: <5615A071.60203@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAGHfRMBV7%2BECQshL=F8XuASQDNr1FSwFix2aDd5cOa4ecF0yRQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201510070928.t979SsMQ057994@repo.freebsd.org> <CAG6CVpVdOeUFg3cSffTKcn9T2SGvLMhERiesecwZ6aoeAjpLjA@mail.gmail.com> <20151007223533.GF91729@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <CAGHfRMBV7%2BECQshL=F8XuASQDNr1FSwFix2aDd5cOa4ecF0yRQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/10/2015 23:41, NGie Cooper wrote: > 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): Assign a valid which a sysctl func rejects? > # 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.
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