On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:54:52PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> If names are permitted to include only digits, then there is only one
> mechanism I can think of that would permit the user of sysctl(8) to
> access both
>
> foo."3".bar
> and
> 12.3.bam
>
> But the syntax of the first example is rather ugly, and it introduces
> a(nother) reserved character in the name-space.
sysctl(8) is already able to use mixed numeric/string paths:
> sysctl proc.$$.stopfork
proc.11373.stopfork = 0
To avoid amibiguities, I say that a digits-only name MUST match the
integer name. That is, this should not be allowed:
sysctl_createv(NULL, 0,
NULL, &cnode,
CTLFLAG_PERMANENT, CTLTYPE_NODE, "17", NULL,
NULL, 0, NULL, 0, 12, 3, CTL_EOL);
because that would create a node with the numeric path 12.3 whose string
path ends in "17".
Dave
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