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Date:      Fri, 4 Jul 2014 05:39:01 -0700
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   r268244 (stable/9) seems to break "sysctl hw.ncpu"
Message-ID:  <20140704123901.GR6056@albert.catwhisker.org>

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After building & installing @r268208 (yesterday), "sysctl hw.ncpu"
reports a number (e.g., "2" for my laptop).

After building & installing @r268244 (today)...

freebeast(9.3-P)[5] sysctl hw.ncpu | hd
00000000  68 77 2e 6e 63 70 75 3a  20 0a                    |hw.ncpu: .|
0000000a
freebeast(9.3-P)[6]=20

After reverting r268244, then "cd /usr/src/sbin/sysctl && make && make
install":

g1-252(9.3-P)[8] sysctl hw.ncpu | hd
00000000  68 77 2e 6e 63 70 75 3a  20 32 0a                 |hw.ncpu:
2.|
0000000b
g1-252(9.3-P)[9]=20


I note that I also track stable/10 and head (on different slices;
daily) on the machine; haven't seen similar behavior in either
environment.

Note that it is not uncommon for certain ports builds to expect to get a
number from "sysctl -n hw.ncpu", and when that doesn't happen, the ports
builds tend to stop working.

Peace,
david
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David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
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