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Subject: Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl
From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@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