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21 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Watson
dba9e9ccbf Add a basic man page for the sysctl(9) macro interfaces. Previously man
pages existed only for the dynamic sysctl interfaces.  There's probably
more complete and accurate content, better advice, etc, that could be added
here.

Per scottl's suggest, add a small piece of moralizing text regarding the
fact that sysctl names quickly get embedded in system configuration files,
libraries, third party applications, and even books, so renaming and
removing names after they've been published is a tricky issue.

MFC after:	1 month
2006-04-28 10:45:27 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
5203edcdc5 Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks and double whitespaces. 2004-07-03 18:29:24 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
c7ea226dc2 Document sysctl_move_oid(). 2004-02-27 17:13:42 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
743d5d518c mdoc(7): Properly mark C headers. 2003-09-10 19:24:35 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
e81508a04a Typo: s/CTLTYPE_DYN/CTLFLAG_DYN
PR:	misc/45012
Submitted by:	Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@omcl.org>
2003-01-04 17:01:50 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
b82af3f5e4 ispell sweep of share/man/man9/*. 2002-01-09 11:43:48 +00:00
Chad David
f16b3c0de4 Update function definitions and required include files to reflect
the current state of the system.

Approved by: alfred
2001-12-26 23:14:04 +00:00
Bruce Evans
c042007e14 Fixed missing include in synopsis.
Fixed bitrot in synopsis.  Const'ification of string args had not reached
here.

Fixed some style bugs (superfluous quotes).
2001-10-04 09:14:48 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
32eef9aeb1 mdoc(7) police: Use the new .In macro for #include statements. 2001-10-01 16:09:29 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
86f478757a MFS: in HISTORY section, fix release number of first appearance 2001-08-01 12:15:21 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
c1f3e4bf21 Removed whitespace at end-of-line; no content changes. I simply did
cd src/share; find man[1-9] -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//'

BTW, what editors are the culprits? I'm using vim and it shows
me whitespace at EOL in troff files with a thick blue block...

Reviewed by:	Silence from cvs diff -b
MFC after:	7 days
2001-07-14 19:41:16 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
70d51341bf mdoc(7) police: remove extraneous .Pp before and/or after .Sh. 2001-07-09 09:54:33 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
bdd87f4f44 Correct a typo. 2001-06-24 01:30:38 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
d0353b836e mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes. 2001-02-01 16:38:02 +00:00
Mark Murray
47608b56e1 Add a missing argument for SYSCTL_ADD_OPAQUE.
Fix the examples at the end which were horribly broken.
2001-01-14 16:43:41 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
d7b336c076 mdoc(7) police: use canonical form of .Dd macro. 2000-12-11 15:47:53 +00:00
Ben Smithurst
d641426e5a Fix typo.
PR:		22923
Submitted by:	Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@uli.it>
2000-11-18 20:19:26 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
e87b9f2824 Use FreeBSD.org, not freebsd.org, as has been the precedent. 2000-10-27 16:05:39 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
9400b2896e Order the cross-references in the SEE ALSO section correctly. 2000-07-18 13:03:09 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
3ae5a45440 Clean up this new manual page. This delta includes content and
whitespace changes, which should not be a problem because this
is only the second revision of the file and translators are
unlikely to have gotten started yet.

Reviewed by:	abial
2000-07-18 07:46:14 +00:00
Andrzej Bialecki
bd3cdc3105 These patches implement dynamic sysctls. It's possible now to add
and remove sysctl oids at will during runtime - they don't rely on
linker sets. Also, the node oids can be referenced by more than
one kernel user, which means that it's possible to create partially
overlapping trees.

Add sysctl contexts to help programmers manage multiple dynamic
oids in convenient way.

Please see the manpages for detailed discussion, and example module
for typical use.

This work is based on ideas and code snippets coming from many
people, among them:  Arun Sharma, Jonathan Lemon, Doug Rabson,
Brian Feldman, Kelly Yancey, Poul-Henning Kamp and others. I'd like
to specially thank Brian Feldman for detailed review and style
fixes.

PR:		kern/16928
Reviewed by:	dfr, green, phk
2000-07-15 10:26:04 +00:00