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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2014-04-16 21:33:46 -0400 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2014-04-16 21:52:36 -0400 |
| commit | 2e573fcf8754fdfe0db0a783b1631ec1679b063a (patch) | |
| tree | 630ab5e94d65ab81e9f6b02d9135466a509342ce /man | |
| parent | 806a37e743a038c0fd0887c24c8b1b6914cb109d (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.xml | 29 |
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> |