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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: sysctl for string arguments ?
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:00:12 +0100 (MET)
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> > other strings in sysctl args seem not to be R/W (or at least,
> > not settable with the "sysctl" command... e.g. kern.hostname and the
> > like).
> 
> kern.corefile in kern_sig.c.

ok, thanks (i was looking on -stable...)

On this subject, it seems that sysctl on 2.2.6 at least does not accept
strings containing spaces:

	sysctl -w kern.hostname=a,b,c

works, whereas

	sysctl -w kern.hostname="a b c"

fails. I am not sure who does the parsing of strings removing
whitespace, nor if this works on -current

	luigi


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