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sysctl: return error on permission denied

Matteo Croce requested to merge teknoraver/procps:master into master

When trying to write to a readonly sysctl or a directory by mistake, sysctl still returns success:

# sysctl kernel.version=foo
sysctl: setting key "kernel.version": Operation not permitted
# echo $?
0
# sysctl kernel=foo
sysctl: setting key "kernel": Operation not permitted
# echo $?
0

Let sysctl return error in both the cases above.

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce teknoraver@meta.com

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