Re: pre-2.0.31-7 nit picks

Janos Farkas (Janos.Farkas-#Gf4aMN5eYr.f1wqyQpp623meAz0@shadow.banki.hu)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 16:37:01 +0200


On 1997-08-19 at 09:28:38, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> Aaron Tiensivu writes:
> >+
> >+# echo 128 256 512 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
> >+
> >
> >All those echo's should be:
> >
> >echo "128 256 512" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
>
> Says who?

You missed a thread about that recent versions of bash for some
reason writes the tree arguments in three go (not as a single
string), and that makes the sysctl read code intepret it as
three separate numbers written _for_the_same_ number. I.e.
only the first one would be modified.

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