rc.d/sysctl fails to parse sysctl.conf

[Andreas Nilsson]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 27 February 2013 21:19, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I tried to get my sound working, and long story short: rc.d/sysctl parses
> > sysctl.conf wrongly if there are sysctls of the form
> >
> > mib=val1=val2
> >
> > which is what you need for sound. For reference I needed/wanted
> >
> > dev.hdaa.4.nid25_config=as=1,seq=15
> > dev.hdaa.4.nid31_config=as=1
> >
> > I believe the following patch would address the incorrect parsing:
> >
> > --- /etc/rc.d/sysctl.old        2013-02-27 22:00:00.000000000 +0100
> > +++ /etc/rc.d/sysctl    2013-02-27 22:05:24.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
> >                         \#*|'')
> >                                 ;;
> >                         *)
> > -                               mib=${var%=*}
> > +                               mib=${var%%=*}
> >                                 val=${var#*=}
> >
> >                                 if current_value=`${SYSCTL} -n ${mib}
> > 2>/dev/null`; then
>
> I think that this is the right thing to do here.
>
> Chris
>


As a follow-up question: is sysctl.conf supposed to handle  all valid input
one can give sysctl on the command line? Using the above example would
normally be typed:
sysctl dev.hdaa.4.nid25_config="as=1 seq=15"
which works, but fails to work from sysctl.conf

Best regards
Andreas