Added note into sysctl.8 manpage about directory precedence.
This information may be important for users who create new config files at several destinations. Especially the information about files to be omitted in directories with lower priority shall be given.
The entire tree's polluted with inappropriate trailing
whitespace. This commit rids our environment of all of
those useless keystrokes. Unfortunately, it sure ain't
a permanent solution and requires every contributor to
instruct their editor(s) to prevent or eliminate them.
Plus it's strongly recommended we all insert something
like what's shown below to our '.gitconfig' file so as
to provide at least some warnings when we try to apply
any patches (git am) that do contain the #@!%& things!
References(s):
~/.gitconfig excerpt ---------------------------------
[core]
whitespace = trailing-space, space-before-tab, blank-at-eof
[apply]
whitespace = warn
--------------------------------- ~/.gitconfig excerpt
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The previous version of sysctl had the form:
sysctl -p [file]
In other words, it required a space between the -p and the [file].
Omitting the space would lead to an error.
The new version though is the opposite:
sysctl -p[file]
In other words, it requires there to not be a space.
Considering the old behavior has been around for a decade, and runtime
checking for this mismatch in behavior is silly, and supporting the old
syntax is trivial, add support for it.
When '-p regexp' is glob is used to make reqular expression to be
expanded to argument list, which also means that -p option will
allow multiple files being specified as input.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
All warnings where about unnecessary quoting. The scriptlet
below will tell what was wrong.
for I in ./top/top.1 ./ps/ps.1 ./*.[0-9]; do
echo "== $I warnings =="
man --warnings=all $I > /dev/null
done
This should probably be turned to 'make check' script.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
The man page has examples like sysctl -p filename. Optional arguments
using getopt cannot have a space between the option and argument.
So the correct format is sysctl -pfilename
Useful for e.g network hook scripts together with --system to only apply
sysctls for a specific network interface.
Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
instead of requiring distributions to construct a loop around sysctl
in boot scripts just scan a set of default directories if the --system
switch is used.
Config files are applied in alphabetic order of their base name.
Each base name is only applied once according to the directory
preference. /etc/sysctl.conf is always applied last.
Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
