Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:41:58 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Andrey Zonov <zont@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl Message-ID: <1355946118.1198.217.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wRfd0CcHZA5kwmdnyyTvinXyXubqVuX_FLwJ1RuMH=ZnA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201212132332.qBDNWmK4037503@svn.freebsd.org> <50D1D720.80206@FreeBSD.org> <1355931456.1198.203.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CAGH67wRfd0CcHZA5kwmdnyyTvinXyXubqVuX_FLwJ1RuMH=ZnA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 11:10 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 Hrm. I would consider enhancing a program to accept data on stdin, thereby allowing complex tasks to be efficiently accomplished using pipelines of simple tools, to be more "unix-ising" than "linux-ising". -- Ian
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