Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:36:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl for string arguments ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810071128280.14555-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199810070700.IAA08022@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > other strings in sysctl args seem not to be R/W (or at least, > > > not settable with the "sysctl" command... e.g. kern.hostname and the > > > like). > > > > kern.corefile in kern_sig.c. > > ok, thanks (i was looking on -stable...) > > On this subject, it seems that sysctl on 2.2.6 at least does not accept > strings containing spaces: > > sysctl -w kern.hostname=a,b,c > > works, whereas > > sysctl -w kern.hostname="a b c" > > fails. I am not sure who does the parsing of strings removing The quotes are removed by shell. The rest of the argument is parsed by parse(), which first finds the '=', then skips leading spaces, and then takes the rest of the line as a new value. > whitespace, nor if this works on -current Works just fine on -current. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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