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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:14:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011206151255.21187I-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011206121009.B74685@iguana.aciri.org>

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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> >   o Add an additional .Pp between the send/recvbuffer comments and
> >     the ones on ipfw.  Note to self: why does ipfw/dummynet count as
> >     a sysctl in tuning(7)?
> 
> I have to admit it is the first time i read this manpage, and from the
> CGI interface on www.freebsd.org, so the one i see might be out of date,
> but I have the impression that the document should be slightly
> restructured, by putting a short introduction paragraph listing which
> subsystems are covered, mentioning that most of the subsystems can be
> controlled/configured using kernel config options, sysctls and boot-time
> tunables, and then completely removing the SYSCTL section (whose content
> goes into the subsystem's sections). 

Yeah, I tend to agree.  I probably don't have time to do more than the
cursory updates right now, but as a longer term goal, that sounds like an
excellent approach to improving it.

Another improvement we need to make is to find the places in the source
code where many of these constants are defined, and make sure to put
documentation cross-references into the code.  That might improve the
degree to which the documentation of constants is kept in sync.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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