From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jan 18 8: 6: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0429537B402 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:05:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0IG3XV90300; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:03:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:03:33 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Ben Smithurst , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manual page review: connect(2) EAGAIN error Message-ID: <20010118180333.A89516@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: Garrett Wollman , Ben Smithurst , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010118113453.A25127@comp.leeds.ac.uk> <20010118115155.B25127@comp.leeds.ac.uk> <200101181547.KAA29035@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101181547.KAA29035@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:47:00AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:47:00AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > >> +Increasing the > >> +.Va net.inet.ip.portrange.last > > +sysctl variable > >> +(which defaults to 5000) may help this problem. > > We really should define a special markup for these so that it is not > necessary to so frequently repeat this. > > POSIX uses {braces} for potentially-configurable system parameters > such as {NGROUPS_MAX} or {PATH_MAX}. I think sysctl(8) nodes are of > a similar flavor, so perhaps all we need is a macro for braces (which > we already have) and a .Er/.Dv analogue, call it .Sc or something like > that. > The {braces} macro is only provided in mdocNG as .Brq or .Bro/.Brc pair. mdoc(7) already has the .Va (generic) macro for variables. So I think the ``.Brq Va sysctl.variable'' should be used. Why introduce .Sc? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message