4 files changed, 77 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/parse_config.c b/libbb/parse_config.c
index 307ae2cd2..da7482c6d 100644
--- a/libbb/parse_config.c
+++ b/libbb/parse_config.c
@@ -201,10 +201,10 @@ int FAST_FUNC config_read(parser_t *parser, char **tokens, unsigned flags, const
                /* Combine remaining arguments? */
                if ((t != (ntokens-1)) || !(flags & PARSE_GREEDY)) {
                        /* Vanilla token, find next delimiter */
-                        line += strcspn(line, delims[0] ? delims : delims + 1);
+                        line += strcspn(line, (delims[0] && (flags & PARSE_EOL_COMMENTS)) ? delims : delims + 1);
                } else {
                        /* Combining, find comment char if any */
-                        line = strchrnul(line, PARSE_EOL_COMMENTS ? delims[0] : '\0');
+                        line = strchrnul(line, (flags & PARSE_EOL_COMMENTS) ? delims[0] : '\0');
                        /* Trim any extra delimiters from the end */
                        if (flags & PARSE_TRIM) {
@@ -214,10 +214,10 @@ int FAST_FUNC config_read(parser_t *parser, char **tokens, unsigned flags, const
                }
                /* Token not terminated? */
-                if (*line == delims[0])
+                if ((flags & PARSE_EOL_COMMENTS) && *line == delims[0])
-                        *line = '\0';
+                        *line = '\0'; /* ends with comment char: this line is done */
                else if (*line != '\0')
-                        *line++ = '\0';
+                        *line++ = '\0'; /* token is done, continue parsing line */
 #if 0 /* unused so far */
                if (flags & PARSE_ESCAPE) {
diff --git a/procps/sysctl.c b/procps/sysctl.c
index b17f5e896..619f4f1e4 100644
--- a/procps/sysctl.c
+++ b/procps/sysctl.c
@@ -21,17 +21,17 @@
 //kbuild:lib-$(CONFIG_BB_SYSCTL) += sysctl.o
 //usage:#define sysctl_trivial_usage
-//usage:       "[OPTIONS] [KEY[=VALUE]]..."
+//usage:       "-p [-enq] [FILE...] / [-enqaw] [KEY[=VALUE]]..."
 //usage:#define sysctl_full_usage "\n\n"
 //usage:       "Show/set kernel parameters\n"
+//usage:     "\n        -p      Set values from FILEs (default /etc/sysctl.conf)"
 //usage:     "\n        -e      Don't warn about unknown keys"
 //usage:     "\n        -n      Don't show key names"
+//usage:     "\n        -q      Quiet"
 //usage:     "\n        -a      Show all values"
 /* Same as -a, no need to show it */
 /* //usage:     "\n     -A      Show all values in table form" */
 //usage:     "\n        -w      Set values"
-//usage:     "\n        -p FILE Set values from FILE (default /etc/sysctl.conf)"
-//usage:     "\n        -q      Set values silently"
 //usage:
 //usage:#define sysctl_example_usage
 //usage:       "sysctl [-n] [-e] variable...\n"
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ enum {
        FLAG_TABLE_FORMAT    = 1 << 2, /* not implemented */
        FLAG_SHOW_ALL        = 1 << 3,
        FLAG_PRELOAD_FILE    = 1 << 4,
-/* TODO: procps 3.2.8 seems to not require -w for KEY=VAL to work: */
+        /* NB: procps 3.2.8 does not require -w for KEY=VAL to work, it only rejects non-KEY=VAL form */
        FLAG_WRITE           = 1 << 5,
        FLAG_QUIET           = 1 << 6,
 };
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ static int sysctl_act_on_setting(char *setting)
        int fd, retval = EXIT_SUCCESS;
        char *cptr, *outname;
        char *value = value; /* for compiler */
+        bool writing = (option_mask32 & FLAG_WRITE);
        outname = xstrdup(setting);
@@ -114,8 +115,10 @@ static int sysctl_act_on_setting(char *setting)
                cptr++;
        }
-        if (option_mask32 & FLAG_WRITE) {
+        cptr = strchr(setting, '=');
-                cptr = strchr(setting, '=');
+        if (cptr)
+                writing = 1;
+        if (writing) {
                if (cptr == NULL) {
                        bb_error_msg("error: '%s' must be of the form name=value",
                                outname);
@@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ static int sysctl_act_on_setting(char *setting)
                        break;
                default:
                        bb_perror_msg("error %sing key '%s'",
-                                        option_mask32 & FLAG_WRITE ?
+                                        writing ?
                                                "sett" : "read",
                                        outname);
                        break;
@@ -156,7 +159,7 @@ static int sysctl_act_on_setting(char *setting)
                goto end;
        }
-        if (option_mask32 & FLAG_WRITE) {
+        if (writing) {
 //TODO: procps 3.2.7 writes "value\n", note trailing "\n"
                xwrite_str(fd, value);
                close(fd);
@@ -238,22 +241,27 @@ static int sysctl_handle_preload_file(const char *filename)
 {
        char *token[2];
        parser_t *parser;
+        int parse_flags;
        parser = config_open(filename);
        /* Must do it _after_ config_open(): */
        xchdir("/proc/sys");
-        /* xchroot("/proc/sys") - if you are paranoid */
 //TODO: ';' is comment char too
-//TODO: comment may be only at line start. "var=1 #abc" - "1 #abc" is the value
+//TODO: <space><tab><space>#comment is also comment, not strictly 1st char only
-// (but _whitespace_ from ends should be trimmed first (and we do it right))
+        parse_flags = 0;
-//TODO: "var==1" is mishandled (must use "=1" as a value, but uses "1")
+        parse_flags &= ~PARSE_COLLAPSE;   // NO (var==val is not var=val) - treat consecutive delimiters as one
-// can it be fixed by removing PARSE_COLLAPSE bit?
+        parse_flags &= ~PARSE_TRIM;       // NO - trim leading and trailing delimiters
-        while (config_read(parser, token, 2, 2, "# \t=", PARSE_NORMAL)) {
+        parse_flags |= PARSE_GREEDY;      // YES - last token takes entire remainder of the line
+        parse_flags &= ~PARSE_MIN_DIE;    // NO - die if < min tokens found
+        parse_flags &= ~PARSE_EOL_COMMENTS; // NO (only first char) - comments are recognized even if not first char
+        while (config_read(parser, token, 2, 2, "#=", parse_flags)) {
                char *tp;
+                trim(token[0]);
+                trim(token[1]);
                sysctl_dots_to_slashes(token[0]);
                tp = xasprintf("%s=%s", token[0], token[1]);
-                sysctl_act_recursive(tp);
+                sysctl_act_on_setting(tp);
                free(tp);
        }
        if (ENABLE_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP)
@@ -273,12 +281,19 @@ int sysctl_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
        option_mask32 = opt;
        if (opt & FLAG_PRELOAD_FILE) {
+                int cur_dir_fd;
                option_mask32 |= FLAG_WRITE;
-                /* xchdir("/proc/sys") is inside */
+                if (!*argv)
-                return sysctl_handle_preload_file(*argv ? *argv : "/etc/sysctl.conf");
+                        *--argv = (char*)"/etc/sysctl.conf";
+                cur_dir_fd = xopen(".", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY);
+                do {
+                        /* xchdir("/proc/sys") is inside */
+                        sysctl_handle_preload_file(*argv);
+                        xfchdir(cur_dir_fd); /* files can be relative, must restore cwd */
+                } while (*++argv);
+                return 0; /* procps-ng 3.3.10 does not flag parse errors */
        }
        xchdir("/proc/sys");
-        /* xchroot("/proc/sys") - if you are paranoid */
        if (opt & (FLAG_TABLE_FORMAT | FLAG_SHOW_ALL)) {
                return sysctl_act_recursive(".");
        }
diff --git a/testsuite/mdev.tests b/testsuite/mdev.tests
index 8515aff31..8e53ec564 100755
--- a/testsuite/mdev.tests
+++ b/testsuite/mdev.tests
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ SKIP=
 # continuing to use directory structure from prev test
 rm -rf mdev.testdir/dev/*
 echo "sda 0:0 644 @echo @echo TEST" >mdev.testdir/etc/mdev.conf
-optional STATIC FEATURE_MDEV_CONF FEATURE_MDEV_EXEC FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE FEATURE_LS_TIMESTAMPS FEATURE_LS_USERNAME FEATURE_SH_IS_ASH ASH_ECHO
+optional STATIC FEATURE_MDEV_CONF FEATURE_MDEV_EXEC FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE FEATURE_LS_TIMESTAMPS FEATURE_LS_USERNAME SH_IS_ASH ASH_ECHO
 testing "mdev command" \
        "env - PATH=$PATH ACTION=add DEVPATH=/block/sda chroot mdev.testdir /mdev 2>&1;
        ls -lnR mdev.testdir/dev | $FILTER_LS" \
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ SKIP=
 # continuing to use directory structure from prev test
 rm -rf mdev.testdir/dev/*
 echo "sda 0:0 644 =block/ @echo @echo TEST:\$MDEV" >mdev.testdir/etc/mdev.conf
-optional STATIC FEATURE_MDEV_CONF FEATURE_MDEV_RENAME FEATURE_MDEV_EXEC FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE FEATURE_LS_TIMESTAMPS FEATURE_LS_USERNAME FEATURE_SH_IS_ASH
+optional STATIC FEATURE_MDEV_CONF FEATURE_MDEV_RENAME FEATURE_MDEV_EXEC FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE FEATURE_LS_TIMESTAMPS FEATURE_LS_USERNAME SH_IS_ASH
 testing "mdev move and command" \
        "env - PATH=$PATH ACTION=add DEVPATH=/block/sda chroot mdev.testdir /mdev 2>&1;
        ls -lnR mdev.testdir/dev | $FILTER_LS2" \
diff --git a/testsuite/parse.tests b/testsuite/parse.tests
index 904e1a17a..2cbed6f31 100755
--- a/testsuite/parse.tests
+++ b/testsuite/parse.tests
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@
 . ./testing.sh
-COLLAPSE=$(( 0x00010000))
+COLLAPSE=$((    0x00010000))
-TRIM=$((     0x00020000))
+TRIM=$((        0x00020000))
-GREEDY=$((   0x00040000))
+GREEDY=$((      0x00040000))
-MIN_DIE=$((  0x00100000))
+MIN_DIE=$((     0x00100000))
-KEEP_COPY=$((0x00200000))
+KEEP_COPY=$((   0x00200000))
-ESCAPE=$((   0x00400000))
+EOL_COMMENTS=$((0x00400000))
-NORMAL=$((   COLLAPSE | TRIM | GREEDY))
+NORMAL=$((   COLLAPSE | TRIM | GREEDY | EOL_COMMENTS))
 # testing "description" "command" "result" "infile" "stdin"
@@ -27,6 +27,34 @@ testing "parse notrim" \
        "-" \
        " sda 0:0 644 @echo @echo TEST \n"
+testing "parse comments" \
+        "parse -n 4 -m 3 -f $((NORMAL - EOL_COMMENTS)) -" \
+        "[sda][0:0][644][@echo @echo TEST #this is not eaten]\n" \
+        "-" \
+        "\
+# sda 0:0 644 @echo @echo TEST - this gets eaten
+ sda 0:0 644 @echo @echo TEST #this is not eaten
+"
+testing "parse bad comment" \
+        "parse -n 2 -m 2 -d '#=' -f $((GREEDY)) - 2>&1" \
+        "\
+[var][val]
+parse: bad line 3: 1 tokens found, 2 needed
+[  #this][ok]
+[  #this][=ok]
+[  #this][=ok=ok=ok=]
+" \
+        "-" \
+        "\
+# this gets eaten
+var=val
+  #this causes error msg
+  #this=ok
+  #this==ok
+  #this==ok=ok=ok=
+"
 FILE=__parse
 cat >$FILE <<EOF
 #
@@ -96,6 +124,8 @@ cat >$FILE.res <<EOF
 [option][dns][129.219.13.81]
 [option][domain][local]
 [option][lease][864000]
+[option][msstaticroutes][10.0.0.0/8][10.127.0.1]
+[option][staticroutes][10.0.0.0/8][10.127.0.1,][10.11.12.0/24][10.11.12.1]
 [option][0x08][01020304]
 EOF