[procps] Re: [PATCH v2] sysctl: restore old -p handling
- From: "Kent R. Spillner" <kspillner@xxxxxxx>
- To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:46:13 -0500 (CDT)
Hey, dude-
> That said I wonder if the argument should use glob(3)
>
> sake@sake /home/src/procps-ng cat ~/foo
> non.sense.example = foobar
>
> sake@sake /home/src/procps-ng ./sysctl -p ~/foo
> lt-sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/non/sense/example: No such file or directory
> sake@sake /home/src/procps-ng ./sysctl -p~/foo
> lt-sysctl: cannot open "~/foo": No such file or directory
-1
You're adding a lot of code just to get this to work with -p<file>, which
probably shouldn't have been supported in the first place (no spaces between
options and arguments isn't very idiomatic). Is it too late to just drop
support for -p<file> altogether?
Best,
Kent
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