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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 index 4e255e5..23ed92c 100644 --- a/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 +++ b/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 @@ -123,7 +123,9 @@ The information available from consists of integers, strings, devices .Pq Vt dev_t , and opaque types. -.Nm Sysctl +The +.Nm +utility only knows about a couple of opaque types, and will resort to hexdumps for the rest. The opaque information is much more useful if retrieved by special @@ -275,14 +277,16 @@ option has been deprecated and is silently ignored. .Xr sysctl 3 , .Xr sysctl.conf 5 .Sh BUGS -.Nm Sysctl -presently exploits an undocumented interface to the kernel +The +.Nm +utility presently exploits an undocumented interface to the kernel sysctl facility to traverse the sysctl tree and to retrieve format and name information. This correct interface is being thought about for the time being. .Sh HISTORY -.Nm Sysctl -first appeared in +A +.Nm +utility first appeared in .Bx 4.4 . .Pp In |
