From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Oct 4 05:19:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29372 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 05:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA29309 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 05:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15482; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 14:14:25 +0200 (CEST) To: rotel@indigo.ie cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/8015: Some sysctl descriptions for the kernel In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:14:57 -0000." <199810041114.MAA00926@indigo.ie> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 14:14:25 +0200 Message-ID: <15480.907503265@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199810041114.MAA00926@indigo.ie>, Niall Smart writes: >On Oct 1, 4:40am, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> > Seeing a commit message asking for descriptions on new sysctl >> >entries I thought I might add some, too. I choose the ones I could >> >identify right away and knew what they were doing. >> >> > This is untested but I think it will work. Unfortunately we >> >don't have a tool to list the comments, yet so one can't really test >> >them anyway. :-( >> >> That was actually my dream at one point, the comment would be in >> SGML and some tool would walk all over the kernel and construct >> some doc from that. > >Oh, surely the comments should be in troff! You can convert SGML to troff, so SGML wins. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message