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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 index 8bf54ab..acda7fc 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 @@ -406,8 +406,23 @@ The maximum number of supplemental groups. .It Li KERN_NISDOMAINNAME The name of the current YP/NIS domain. .It Li KERN_OSRELDATE -The system release date in YYYYMM format -(January 1996 is encoded as 199601). +The kernel release version in the format +.Ar M Ns Ar mm Ns Ar R Ns Ar xx , +where +.Ar M +is the major version, +.Ar mm +is the two digit minor version, +.Ar R +is 0 if release branch, otherwise 1, +and +.Ar xx +is updated when the available APIs change. +.Pp +The userland release version is available from +.Aq Pa osreldate.h ; +parse this file if you need to get the release version of +the currently installed userland. .It Li KERN_OSRELEASE The system release string. .It Li KERN_OSREV |
