svn commit: r330711 - head/sbin/sysctl
Eugene Grosbein
eugen at grosbein.net
Sat Mar 10 03:47:20 UTC 2018
10.03.2018 6:37, John Baldwin wrote:
> Author: jhb
> Date: Fri Mar 9 23:37:19 2018
> New Revision: 330711
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/330711
>
> Log:
> Permit sysctl(8) to set an array of numeric values for a single node.
>
> Most sysctl nodes only return a single value, but some nodes return an
> array of values (e.g. kern.cp_time). sysctl(8) understand how to display
> the values of a node that returns multiple values (it prints out each
> numeric value separated by spaces). However, until now sysctl(8) has
> only been able to set sysctl nodes to a single value. This change
> allows sysctl to accept a new value for a numeric sysctl node that contains
> multiple values separated by either spaces or commas. sysctl(8) parses
> this list into an array of values and passes the array as the "new" value
> to sysctl(2).
Note well: we already have some examples of complex sysctl comma-separated "list" values such as:
security.mac.portacl.rules=uid:53:tcp:53,uid:53:udp:53
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