Remove the descriptions of the files in /kern and refer

the reader to kernfs(5) so that the information only
has to be maintained in one place.
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Mike Pritchard 1996-12-14 21:55:37 +00:00
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commit b09aedddeb
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
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@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ some of which can also be written.
The contents of the files is in a machine-independent format,
either a string, or an integer in decimal ASCII.
Where numbers are returned, a trailing newline character is also added.
See the
.Xr kernfs 5
manual page for a detailed description of the information
that is available.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
@ -77,51 +81,15 @@ man page for possible options and their meanings.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width copyright -compact
.It Pa boottime
the time at which the system was last booted (decimal ASCII).
.It Pa copyright
kernel copyright message.
.It Pa hostname
the hostname, with a trailing newline.
The hostname can be changed by writing to this file.
A trailing newline will be stripped from the hostname being written.
.It Pa hz
the frequency of the system clock (decimal ASCII).
.It Pa loadavg
the 1, 5 and 15 minute load average in kernel fixed-point format.
The final integer is the fix-point scaling factor.
All numbers are in decimal ASCII.
.It Pa pagesize
the machine pagesize (decimal ASCII).
.It Pa physmem
the number of pages of physical memory in the machine (decimal ASCII).
.It Pa root
the system root directory.
In a chroot'ed environment,
.Nm
can be used to create a new
.Pa /kern
.It Pa /kern
The normal
.Nm kernfs
mount point.
.Pa /kern/root
will then refer to the system global root, not the current process root.
.It Pa rootdev
the root device.
.It Pa rrootdev
the raw root device.
.It Pa time
the second and microsecond value of the system clock.
Both numbers are in decimal ASCII.
.It Pa version
the kernel version string.
The head line for
.Pa /etc/motd
can be generated by running:
.Dq Ic "sed 1q /kern/version"
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mount 2 ,
.Xr unmount 2 ,
.Xr fstab 5 ,
.Xr kernfs 5 ,
.Xr mount 8
.Sh CAVEATS
This filesystem may not be NFS-exported.