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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