such a way that the name and the value of the variable(s) are separated
with `=' instead of the usual `: '. This is useful for producing output
that can be fed back to the sysctl utility (pasted to sysctl.conf, for
example).
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: markm
MFC after: 2 weeks
- introduce a -o option that displays opaque variables.
- introduce a -x option that displays opaque variables in full.
- deprecate -A in favor of -ao and -X in favor of -ax.
- remove -A and -X from usage() and SYNOPSIS (but not from DESCRIPTION).
- ignore -a if one or more variables were listed on the command line.
- deprecate -w, it is not needed to determine the user's intentions.
- some language and style cleanup in the man page.
This commit should not break any existing scripts.
MFC after: 4 weeks
Zsh users can add the following to their .zshrc for sysctl completion:
function listsysctls {
case $1 in
*.*) set -A reply $(sysctl -AN ${1%.*}) ;;
*) set -A reply $(sysctl -AN) ;;
esac
}
compctl -K listsysctls sysctl
While I'm here, brucify the getopt() switch.
SYSCTL_LONG macro to be consistent with other integer sysctl variables
and require an initial value instead of assuming 0. Update several
sysctl variables to use the unsigned types.
PR: 15251
Submitted by: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
