On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 11:29:17AM +0100, jhx wrote: > this patch adds the "-p" option to sysctl which makes it possible to > read/parse/apply settings from /etc/sysctl.conf at any time the user wishes.
This is an interesting idea, but you can effectively do the same thing from the shell with: # sysctl `cat /etc/sysctl.conf` Also, note that both your patch and the above shell command do not gracefully handle comment lines in /etc/sysctl.conf, (although that shouldn't cause any problem in practice).
