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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:45:28 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h
Message-ID:  <99Nov30.083814est.40338@border.alcanet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911291238040.59489-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
References:  <83454.943870526@zippy.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911291238040.59489-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>

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On 1999-Nov-30 04:38:30 +1100, Bill Fumerola wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
>> Hmmm.  A fine thing, but one small point:  Are we actually documenting
>> these new knobs anywhere? :-)
>
>We could do so in the appropriate field in SYSCTL_* but it doesn't
>exactly work....

Making them work is a really trivial problem.  Making them work
without bloating the kernel is a somewhat less trivial problem, but
quite doable.  (I have one kernel-land implementation, but have been
fighting with the linker to get it to do what I want - which would
simplify the userland side).

In any case, any new sysctl knobs should be adequately documented
using the relevant documentation field.  (And the old knobs should be
updated as time permits).  At worst, we can use a trivial perl or awk
script to pull the documentation fields out of the source.

Peter


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