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Subject: Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl
From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Ian Lepore
<freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote:

...

> Instead of running sysctl a bunch of times, how about something
> conceptually similar to
>
>    cat /etc/sysctl.d/* /etc/sysctl.conf | sysctl -f -
>
> Along with this (untested) patch to make sysctl understand "-f -".
>
> Hmmm, is /dev/stdin available as early as sysctl.conf runs?  If not, the
> attached patch isn't going to work.

    Why not just make sysctl understand multiple -f options? You're
probably going to run into more problems parsing from /dev/stdin and
it's going to obfuscate things a lot dealing with which file came
last, feeding back diagnostic info, etc.
    Please don't "linuxise" this tool.
Thanks,
-Garrett