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-rw-r--r--man/sysctl.d.xml29
-rw-r--r--src/sysctl/sysctl.c18
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 10 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>
diff --git a/src/sysctl/sysctl.c b/src/sysctl/sysctl.c
index 283eefe1a1..06defa5b7c 100644
--- a/src/sysctl/sysctl.c
+++ b/src/sysctl/sysctl.c
@@ -48,12 +48,26 @@ static const char conf_file_dirs[] =
#endif
;
-static char *normalize_sysctl(char *s) {
+static char* normalize_sysctl(char *s) {
char *n;
- for (n = s; *n; n++)
+ n = strpbrk(s, "/.");
+ /* If the first separator is a slash, the path is
+ * assumed to be normalized and slashes remain slashes
+ * and dots remains dots. */
+ if (!n || *n == '/')
+ return s;
+
+ /* Otherwise, dots become slashes and slashes become
+ * dots. Fun. */
+ while (n) {
if (*n == '.')
*n = '/';
+ else
+ *n = '.';
+
+ n = strpbrk(n + 1, "/.");
+ }
return s;
}