From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 10 00:24:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17876 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:24:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA17871 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 20942 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Jan 1999 08:24:15 +0000 (GMT) To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, des@flood.ping.uio.no, darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jan 1999 23:53:45 -0800" References: <50085.915954825@zippy.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:24:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20940.915956655@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Actually, there is a legitimate syncronization issue to be dealt with > here. If I have a sysctl implemented in one area of the code with a > doc string that describes it, I'm going to be more inclined to stick > it in the macro definition or something itself so that I have doc > string and associated sysctl code together. Precisely. I think that having a reasonably up to date *short* description of each sysctl would be extremely useful. By short I mean 80 characters or less. Yes, I realize that many of the sysctls really need longer descriptions - but short descriptions are still useful! On a fairly current system here there are 319 sysctls. If each of them had an 80 character description, it would increase kernel size by 25520 bytes. I'm very willing to pay that price, especially if I could decide at kernel compile time whether to include the descriptions or not. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message