From owner-freebsd-audit Tue Oct 30 21: 2:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C480E37B401; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:02:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-38lc2so.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.11.152] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15ynWR-0005GO-00; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:02:39 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9UNf6s00352; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:41:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:41:03 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Anton Berezin Cc: audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New option to sysctl(8) Message-ID: <20011030154102.B223@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011029223004.B50609@heechee.tobez.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011029223004.B50609@heechee.tobez.org>; from tobez@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:30:04PM +0100 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:30:04PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: [snip] > +.It Fl e > +Separate the name and the value of the variable(s) with `='. > +This is useful for producing output which can be fed back to the > +.Nm > +utility. > +This option is ignored if either > +.Fl N > +or > +.Fl n > +is specified, or a variable is being set. Might it just be easier to allow sysctl(8) to accept, # sysctl -w some.sysctl.var: value As valid input? Any reason why it should not? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message