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Date:      Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:28:07 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <arch@freebsd.org>, <audit@freebsd.org>, <athlete@kta.att.ne.jp>
Subject:   Re: CFR: Crusoe LongRun Support
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106292023230.4374-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010630041951I.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > > > I'd like to have the patches reviewed in terms of sysctl namespace,
> > > > security issues and other problems.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions or objections about this?
> > > I'll commit this 3 days later.
> >
> > I think you should probably commit it. I would really like to see a
> > manpage committed at the same time which describes the implications of the
> > various longrun values.
>
> OK, I'll do that based on Hattori-san's page on LongRun
> http://home.att.ne.jp/delta/athlete/longrun/longrun_e.html
> and add short descriptions at the last argument of sysctl_add_oid().
>
> BTW, is sysctl(8) good place to be documented?  I think we'd better to
> have another documentation system for the hypertrophied MIBs (like
> /boot/default/loader.conf for tunables, sys/i386/conf/NOTES for kernel
> config options).

I don't think that sysctl(8) is really the right place since there really
isn't enough space for nontrivial documentation and documenting many
things in a single place doesn't really scale that well.

I would like to see something like longrun(4) which described the sysctls
and indicated what each longrun level actually means.

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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