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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:46:53 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r330711 - head/sbin/sysctl
Message-ID:  <5AA3552D.5080203@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <201803092337.w29NbJSX093826@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201803092337.w29NbJSX093826@repo.freebsd.org>

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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




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