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blackhole(4), except that blackhole(4) uses sysctl's. This xref obviously isn't appropriate unless we want to xref all the other man pages which mention sysctls, which we obviously don't (we may want to list those sysctls, but that's another story). PR: 27937 Submitted by: yar
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.\" Copyright (c) 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" From: @(#)sysctl.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd May 28, 2001
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.Dt SYSCTL 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm sysctl
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.Nd get or set kernel state
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl bNnox
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.Ar name Ns Op = Ns Ar value
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.Ar ...
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.Nm
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.Op Fl bNnox
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.Fl a
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility retrieves kernel state and allows processes with appropriate
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privilege to set kernel state.
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The state to be retrieved or set is described using a ``Management
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Information Base'' (``MIB'') style name, described as a dotted set of
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components.
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.Pp
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The following options are available:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl A
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Equivalent to
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.Fl o
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.Fl a
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(for compatibility).
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.It Fl a
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List all the currently available non-opaque values.
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This option is ignored if one or more variable names are specified on
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the command line.
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.It Fl b
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Force the value of the variable(s) to be output in raw, binary format.
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No names are printed and no terminating newlines are output.
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This is mostly useful with a single variable.
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.It Fl N
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Show only variable names, not their values.
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This is particularly useful with shells that offer programmable
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completion.
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To enable completion of variable names in
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.Nm zsh ,
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use the following code:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
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listsysctls () { set -A reply $(sysctl -AN ${1%.*}) }
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compctl -K listsysctls sysctl
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.Ed
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.It Fl n
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Show only variable values, not their names.
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This option is useful for setting shell variables.
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For instance, to save the pagesize in variable psize, use:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
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set psize=`sysctl -n hw.pagesize`
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.Ed
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.It Fl o
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Show opaque variables (which are normally suppressed).
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The format and length are printed, as well as a hex dump of the first
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sixteen bytes of the value.
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.It Fl X
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Equivalent to
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.Fl x
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.Fl a
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(for compatibility).
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.It Fl x
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As
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.Fl o ,
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but prints a hex dump of the entire value instead of just the first
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few bytes.
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.El
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.Pp
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The information available from
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.Nm
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consists of integers, strings, and opaques.
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.Nm Sysctl
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only knows about a couple of opaque types, and will resort to hexdumps
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for the rest.
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The opaque information is much more useful if retrieved by special
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purpose programs such as
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.Nm ps ,
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.Nm systat ,
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and
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.Nm netstat .
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.Pp
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The string and integer information is summarized below.
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For a detailed description of these variable see
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.Xr sysctl 3 .
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.Pp
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The changeable column indicates whether a process with appropriate
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privilege can change the value.
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.Bl -column net.inet.ip.forwardingxxxxxx integerxxx
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.It Sy "Name Type Changeable
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.It "kern.ostype string no
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.It "kern.osrelease string no
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.It "kern.osrevision integer no
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.It "kern.version string no
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.It "kern.maxvnodes integer yes
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.It "kern.maxproc integer no
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.It "kern.maxprocperuid integer yes
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.It "kern.maxfiles integer yes
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.It "kern.maxfilesperproc integer yes
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.It "kern.argmax integer no
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.It "kern.suser_permitted integer yes
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.It "kern.securelevel integer raise only
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.It "kern.hostname string yes
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.It "kern.hostid integer yes
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.It "kern.clockrate struct no
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.It "kern.posix1version integer no
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.It "kern.ngroups integer no
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.It "kern.job_control integer no
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.It "kern.saved_ids integer no
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.It "kern.boottime struct no
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.It "kern.domainname string yes
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.It "kern.filedelay integer yes
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.It "kern.dirdelay integer yes
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.It "kern.metadelay integer yes
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.It "kern.osreldate string no
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.It "kern.bootfile string yes
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.It "kern.corefile string yes
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.It "kern.logsigexit integer yes
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.It "vm.loadavg struct no
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.It "hw.machine string no
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.It "hw.model string no
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.It "hw.ncpu integer no
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.It "hw.byteorder integer no
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.It "hw.physmem integer no
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.It "hw.usermem integer no
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.It "hw.pagesize integer no
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.It "hw.floatingpoint integer no
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.It "hw.machine_arch string no
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.It "machdep.console_device dev_t no
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.It "machdep.adjkerntz integer yes
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.It "machdep.disable_rtc_set integer yes
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.It "user.cs_path string no
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.It "user.bc_base_max integer no
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.It "user.bc_dim_max integer no
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.It "user.bc_scale_max integer no
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.It "user.bc_string_max integer no
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.It "user.coll_weights_max integer no
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.It "user.expr_nest_max integer no
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.It "user.line_max integer no
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.It "user.re_dup_max integer no
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.It "user.posix2_version integer no
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.It "user.posix2_c_bind integer no
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.It "user.posix2_c_dev integer no
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.It "user.posix2_char_term integer no
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.It "user.posix2_fort_dev integer no
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.It "user.posix2_fort_run integer no
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.It "user.posix2_localedef integer no
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.It "user.posix2_sw_dev integer no
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.It "user.posix2_upe integer no
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.It "user.stream_max integer no
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.It "user.tzname_max integer no
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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For example, to retrieve the maximum number of processes allowed
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in the system, one would use the following request:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
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sysctl kern.maxproc
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.Ed
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.Pp
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To set the maximum number of processes allowed
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per uid to 1000, one would use the following request:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
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sysctl -w kern.maxprocperuid=1000
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Information about the system clock rate may be obtained with:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
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sysctl kern.clockrate
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Information about the load average history may be obtained with:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
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sysctl vm.loadavg
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.Ed
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.Pp
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More variables than these exist, and the best and likely only place
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to search for their deeper meaning is undoubtedly the source where
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they are defined.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width <netinet/icmpXvar.h> -compact
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.It Pa <sys/sysctl.h>
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definitions for top level identifiers, second level kernel and hardware
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identifiers, and user level identifiers
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.It Pa <sys/socket.h>
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definitions for second level network identifiers
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.It Pa <sys/gmon.h>
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definitions for third level profiling identifiers
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.It Pa <vm/vm_param.h>
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definitions for second level virtual memory identifiers
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.It Pa <netinet/in.h>
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definitions for third level Internet identifiers and
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fourth level IP identifiers
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.It Pa <netinet/icmp_var.h>
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definitions for fourth level ICMP identifiers
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.It Pa <netinet/udp_var.h>
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definitions for fourth level UDP identifiers
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sysctl 3 ,
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.Xr sysctl.conf 5
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.Sh BUGS
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.Nm Sysctl
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presently exploits an undocumented interface to the kernel
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sysctl facility to traverse the sysctl tree and to retrieve format
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and name information.
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This correct interface is being thought about for the time being.
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm Sysctl
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first appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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.Pp
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In
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.Fx 2.2 ,
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.Nm
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was significantly remodeled.
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