Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:28:37 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl description spillover and also setting the sysctl ? Message-ID: <4ED6A005.60300@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <20111130184815.GA70174@DataIX.net> References: <20111125073630.GC7915@DataIX.net> <201111301152.47002.jhb@freebsd.org> <20111130184815.GA70174@DataIX.net>
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On 11/30/11 7:48 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:52:46AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> 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. >> > > Yeah thats what I thought about it to but the more I thought about it, if it just displayed the values changing instead of the description when =N is supplied I think that would be acceptable to. 0 -> 1 in this case. Or possibly sys.oid: 0 -> 1 # <Description> since sysctl.conf(5) also takes comments like that. > > Not really thats something at the top of the list for fixes though. Low fruit. Food for thought. > Perhaps you would kindly provide a patch for this ? I might have a look at it if nobody does, sounds trivial enough that I might be able to handle it ;)
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