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Date:      Fri, 04 Jun 1999 21:31:15 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysctl 
Message-ID:  <5444.928524675@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:52:18 %2B1000." <99Jun4.143622est.40321@border.alcanet.com.au> 

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In message <99Jun4.143622est.40321@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy writes:
>I notice that sysctl -d doesn't work, and I suspect it never did.

right.

My proposal:

In the LINT kernel, the descriptions are compiled into a separate
section and a small program converts this section into the sysctl(8)
man page source (or maybe more correctly but less likely to be
found: mib(8) man page source)

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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