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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 09 Jan 1999 20:29:36 +0100
In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Sat, 09 Jan 1999 20:13:58 +0100"
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes:
> Many sysctl descriptions would need to be several kbyte worth of
> ascii to come even close to a decent description.

<imho>
That's abuse of the sysctl system. The descriptions should be short
and mnemonic; if more detailed information is needed, refer the user
to a man page.
</imho>

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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