From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 4 23:30:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DD614D69; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA97078; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:44:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:44:40 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no getkerninfo() man page (docs/12220) Message-ID: <19990804234440.A96734@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <199908042059.PAA14626@free.pcs> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908042059.PAA14626@free.pcs>; from Jonathan Lemon on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:59:00PM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:59:00PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > getkerninfo() is depreciated, we use sysctl() instead. In fact, most of > the information provided by getkerninfo() is implemented in terms of > sysctl(). > The route(4) manpage says: > > User processes can obtain information about the routing entry to a spe- > cific destination by using a RTM_GET message, or by reading the /dev/kmem > device, or by issuing a getkerninfo(2) system call. > > IMHO, the above sentence should probably be altered by replacing the > first comma with a period, and throwing away the rest of it. Sounds fair enough. I'll allow 24 hours for objections, and then commit based on that, OK? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message