On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Massimo Sala <massimo.sala...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you confirm it is a sysctl parsing bug ? > > Bosybox handles these cases, so I think also standalone sysctl have to. > > Or at least someone must update sysctl docs / MAN about this. >
Maybe, sysctl seems (I never look into it) just to interpret dot as a separator, unless it reads from the /proc/sys/ directory, it can not know eth0.100 is actually a netdev name.