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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions 
In-reply-to: Your message of "09 Jan 1999 20:29:36 +0100."
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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 20:36:56 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <xzplnjc9rdr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
>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>

And the stuff you're hacking on here was intended to be the sources
for the man pages.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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