From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 4 12:31:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D4E15438 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA05446; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 21:31:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:52:18 +1000." <99Jun4.143622est.40321@border.alcanet.com.au> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 21:31:15 +0200 Message-ID: <5444.928524675@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message