Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 12:31:30 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions Message-ID: <16342.915881490@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "09 Jan 1999 12:05:20 %2B0100." <86u2y0btan.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>
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In message <86u2y0btan.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >The attached patches implement a mechanism for retrieving a sysctl's >description. I haven't tested the patches yet, but they compile >cleanly against a fairly recent (couple of hours old) -current. > >So what do you think? Go or no go? This was deliberately not done initially, sticking goops of ascii in the kernel doesn't seem optimal. The intention was to have a program perambulate /sys and gather the stuff into a man-page or share/misc/sysctl.desc file or similar -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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