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On 01/06/2012, at 15:38, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> Well, we already have more powerful vm.swap_info, so
> I see no reason to add yet another one to do the same thing
> (but now with a human interface).
> Probably sysctl(8) should be enhanced to parse it instead.

There are already sysctls which have duplicate information, eg =
kern.geom.conf* (text, XML & dot versions of the same data)

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