From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 11 11:34:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13826 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov (mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13821 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov) Received: from demios.ether.scl.ameslab.gov ([147.155.137.54] helo=demios.scl.ameslab.gov) by mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov with smtp (Exim 1.90 #1) for hackers@freebsd.org id 0z6JBd-0002y6-00; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:30:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:34:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysctl.3 and sysctl.8 man pages changes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm working on documenting a number of the sysctl variables which are not mentioned in the sysctl.3 or sysctl.8 man pages. In general, should the useful sysctl variables that are likely to remain (variables explicitly defined in sysctl.h, vm_param.h, tcpvar.h, et. al) be briefly mentioned in sysctl.8 and fully explained in sysctl.3? It seems like that was the intent of the way the pages were structured... Guy Helmer Guy Helmer, Graduate Student, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message