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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 2015 15:41:52 -0700
From:      NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r288984 - head/sbin/sysctl
Message-ID:  <CAGHfRMBV7%2BECQshL=F8XuASQDNr1FSwFix2aDd5cOa4ecF0yRQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151007223533.GF91729@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <201510070928.t979SsMQ057994@repo.freebsd.org> <CAG6CVpVdOeUFg3cSffTKcn9T2SGvLMhERiesecwZ6aoeAjpLjA@mail.gmail.com> <20151007223533.GF91729@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>

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On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
...
> I do not think it is, but I couldn't find a way to reproduce another case than
> ENOENT, so I thought maybe the best would be to keep the current behaviour for
> other cases :)

Can't hit ENOTDIR:

# sysctl kern=ireallyshouldnotbedoingthis
sysctl: oid 'kern' isn't a leaf node

Can't hit EPERM:

# sysctl kern.boottime=1000
sysctl: oid 'kern.boottime' is read only

Not sure how to hit EINVAL, other than maybe try and read a sysctl
that dynamically populates itself (this might trigger ENOMEM errors
though):

# sysctl kern.i.am.a.fun.oid.or.something.like.that.yadda.yadda=1000
sysctl: unknown oid
'kern.i.am.a.fun.oid.or.something.like.that.yadda.yadda': No such file
or directory

FWIW I think Conrad's right though about fixing the message to be more
meaningful in the errno != ENOENT case though.

Thanks!
-NGie



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