generic watchdoc(9) interface.
Make watchdogd(8) perform as watchdog(8) as well, and make it
possible to specify a check command to run, timeout and sleep
periods.
Update watchdog(4) to talk about the generic interface and add
new watchdog(8) page.
successful [is spelled] with only one l
NetBSD rev. 1.12
Implement ``one'' prefix to allow a "one shot" operation as if
${rcvar}=yes yet all the other prerequisite tests are still performed.
The existing ``force'' prefix is a sledgehammer that ignores all the
prerequisite checks and always returns a zero exit status; this is a
more gentle approach to the problem of "manipulate this disabled
service without editing rc.conf(5)".
Obtained From: NetBSD
a single lock at the same time.
- Avoid using "own" to refer to holding either a shared or exclusive lock
as it is only really correct for exclusive locks.
- Reword the sentence about sleep-ability to read easier.
Requested by: truckman (1)
device.hints kernel environment variables when disabling ACPI.
Some users are getting confused when they see hint.acpi.0.disabled.
They are confusing it with a sysctl MIB.
Finally, add a reference for device.hints(5) and kenv(1)
in the "SEE ALSO" section of the man page.
PR: docs/62974
Submitted by: Christian S.J. Peron <maneo@bsdpro.com>
is reserved by the loader, and thus any tunable name with that suffix will
be silently discarded.
Document this in the header and man page so that other developers do not
develop so many bumps on the head after banging it against the wall.
Detective work by: Mark Santcroos, grehan
- Document all the policy sysctl's.
- Note that mac_portacl(4) appeared in FreeBSD 5.1.
- A bit of mdoc(7) fixes.
Much of the new text was inspired by the source code comments.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Documented function and macros are:
- DECLARE_GEOM_CLASS(),
- g_attach(),
- g_detach(),
- g_new_bio(),
- g_clone_bio(),
- g_destroy_bio(),
- g_new_consumer(),
- g_destroy_consumer(),
- g_read_data(),
- g_write_data(),
- g_post_event(),
- g_waitfor_event(),
- g_cancel_event(),
- g_new_geomf(),
- g_destroy_geom(),
- g_new_providerf(),
- g_destroy_provider(),
- g_error_provider(),
- g_provider_by_name(),
- g_wither_geom().
and more to come.
I want to thanks following people for help with those documents:
Slawek Zak <zaks@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>
Simon L. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Pieter de Boer <g.p.de.boer@st.hanze.nl>
and of course
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Reviewed by: phk, scottl
Approved by: phk, scottl (mentor)
