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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2014-04-16 21:33:46 -0400
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2014-04-16 21:52:36 -0400
commit2e573fcf8754fdfe0db0a783b1631ec1679b063a (patch)
tree630ab5e94d65ab81e9f6b02d9135466a509342ce /man
parent806a37e743a038c0fd0887c24c8b1b6914cb109d (diff)
sysctl: replaces some slashes with dots
It turns out that plain sysctl understands a.b/c syntax to write to /proc/sys/a/b.c. Support this for compatibility. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77466
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/sysctl.d.xml29
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index 00a857b11a..db53b49599 100644
--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -68,13 +68,26 @@
<para>The configuration files contain a list of
variable assignments, separated by newlines. Empty
lines and lines whose first non-whitespace character
- is # or ; are ignored.</para>
-
- <para>Note that both / and . are accepted as label
- separators within sysctl variable
- names. <literal>kernel.domainname=foo</literal> and
- <literal>kernel/domainname=foo</literal> hence are
- entirely equivalent.</para>
+ is <literal>#</literal> or <literal>;</literal> are
+ ignored.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that either <literal>/</literal> or
+ <literal>.</literal> may be used as separators within
+ sysctl variable names. If the first separator is a
+ slash, remaining slashes and dots are left intact. If
+ the first separator is a dot, dots and slashes are
+ interchanged. <literal>kernel.domainname=foo</literal>
+ and <literal>kernel/domainname=foo</literal> are
+ equivalent and will cause <literal>foo</literal> to
+ be written to
+ <filename>/proc/sys/kernel/domainname</filename>.
+ Either
+ <literal>net.ipv4.conf.enp3s0/200.forwarding</literal>
+ or
+ <literal>net/ipv4/conf/enp3s0.200/forwarding</literal>
+ may be used to refer to
+ <filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/enp3s0.200/forwarding</filename>.
+ </para>
<para>Each configuration file shall be named in the
style of <filename><replaceable>program</replaceable>.conf</filename>.
@@ -109,7 +122,7 @@
early on boot. The network interface-specific options
will also be applied individually for each network
interface as it shows up in the system. (More
- specifically, that is
+ specifically,
<filename>net.ipv4.conf.*</filename>,
<filename>net.ipv6.conf.*</filename>,
<filename>net.ipv4.neigh.*</filename> and <filename>net.ipv6.neigh.*</filename>)</para>