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Re: Bug#701884: kfreebsd: unknown method 'inet6 auto'



Andrew Shadura <bugzilla@tut.by> writes:
>
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:52:16 -0800
> Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Shadura <bugzilla@tut.by> writes:
>> > On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:33:08 -0800
>> > Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> >> > Also, on kfreebsd, are -q and -e valid options to sysctl (not
>> >> > sure if it's implemented the same way or is it a BSD-specific
>> >> > utility there)?
>
>> >> Both are supported[0], kFreeBSD has a additional -p option that is
>> >> supported by a wrapper.
>> >
>> > Well, that page says things different from procps' sysctl's
>> > manpage. Is sysctl a wrapper to provide usual command-line options,
>> > when a real sysctl is somewhere under /lib or something?
>
>> Exactly, well for providing -p:
>
> So, what is better to do: to use the wrapper, or to
> call /lib/freebsd/sysctl directly?

I'd go with the wrapper. Even if we would decide to drop the wrapper
/sbin/sysctl should still be around while the /lib/freebsd/sysctl might
go away.

    Christoph


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