A lot of stuff gets printed before login such as 259 %pnpinfo R, 263 sim_time RW

[Carsten Mattner]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:44 PM Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com wrote:

> Ah, you probably have a 'sysctl var=data' in /etc/sysctl.conf instead of
> just 'var=data'.  That is, you probably have the 'sysctl' keyword in your
> /etc/sysctl.conf when that file should only contain the var=data
> specifications.

Since this is interesting behavior, it piqued my curiosity. Does anyone
have a technical explanation what the existence of 'systctl.*' triggers
in the kernel?