Hi,
Here's my conclusion/opinion.
All of the (networking) BOOLEAN parameters expect newlen (in the
sysctl system call) to be sizeof(int), not 1, but (your) sysctl
program executes the syscall with newlen = 1.
It ([your] sysctl program) should be modified to pass
BOOLEANs as int's.
In other words, BOOLEAN doesn't imply length = 1.
~Randy
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Hi there,
I try to set up a box without procfs, thus I've to set some kernel
parameters using _sysctl().
I wrote a little quick-n-dirty program to set at least integer and
struct ( or better array ) parameters.
I can set all struct, integer and boolean values with this program
except ip_forward.
Due to the docs ip_forward is a BOOLEAN parameter, so the length of the
value array for _sysctl should be 1.
... but ...
in ${KERNELSRC}/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c I find:
snip -->
<-- snap
static int ipv4_sysctl_forward_strategy(ctl_table *table ...
snip -->
<-- snap
if (newlen != sizeof(int))
return -EINVAL;
snip -->
If the config file for my program looks like this:
# CTL_NET IPV4 FORWARD : YES
3 5 8 : 1
I get ``Invalid argument'' from my program.
If the config file for my program looks like this:
3 5 8 : 1 1 1 1
it works and I have a ``1'' in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward.
... sure sizeof(int) is 4 on my machine.
My question:
Is there something wrong with the documentation, and NET_IPV4_FORWARD
awaits 4 integers to set/unset IP forwarding, or is something wrong in
sysctl_net_ipv4.c, or did I understand something wrong, and my program
has to be written in some other kind?
My program itself is in the attachment.
Thanks for every help
Frank
PS:
If the configuration file looks like this:
3 5 16 1 : 1
(the ``3 5 8'' is due to sysctl.h only for compatibility with 2.0
kernels, and I run an 2.4.16) i get ENODIR.
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