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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:11:01 +0400
From:      Andrey Zonov <andrey@zonov.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r232321 - head/share/man/man9
Message-ID:  <CANU_PUG3w_7ZJPDw=OqiYWgSuoYmD3JrObjaFX3p4n-a6Zqyhw@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <201202292241.q1TMffCk048359@svn.freebsd.org> <4F4F2375.3080209@zonov.org> <4F4F3BFB.5030104@FreeBSD.org> <CANU_PUHCvk6U25A7kUi=NJ5mRvZDJBkLbFxaCeo3ueEXOfT3fQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F4F450D.3060607@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 01/03/2012 11:11 Andrey Zonov said the following:
>> It doesn't make sense. =A0For (CTLFLAG_RD|CTLFLAG_TUN) there is relevant
>> code in sysctl(8), but for (CTLFLAG_RW|CTLFLAG_TUN) there is no any
>> code, or did I miss something?
>
> In the existing code - no.
> But I would appreciate if e.g. sysctl -d could report that a sysctl also =
has a
> twin tunable. =A0I can imagine that there could be things which are bette=
r be set
> to a certain value from the very start (via a tunable) rather than switch=
ed to
> that value later in a boot process (via sysctl).
> Extra user-friendly information doesn't hurt, IMO.

That would be very usefull, I also thought of it, but for now we've
got many tunables+sysctls that don't mark as CTLFLAG_TUN.

One quick example is: vm.pmap.shpgperproc

--=20
Andrey Zonov



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