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>
