>Number:         23190
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       sysctl(3) manpage has wrong data type for KERN_CP_TIME
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 19 01:47:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Adam Sampson
>Release:        1.6
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD mcnaught 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Sep  8 19:43:40 UTC 2002     autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

>Description:
I'm porting libstatgrab to NetBSD at the moment, and I'm writing some code that uses sysctl() to read the CPU times vector. The sysctl(3) manual page says that KERN_CP_TIME's return data type is an array of CPUSTATES longs, but this won't work; it's actually an array of CPUSTATES u_int16_ts (as looking at the sysctl(8) source confirmed). There's also a couple of obvious typos in the description.
>How-To-Repeat:
"man 3 sysctl", search for "CP_TIME".
>Fix:
Change the "Type" of KERN_CP_TIME in the CTL_KERN table to "u_int64_t[]", and the description below to something like:

"An array of CPUSTATES u_int16_t values is returned. This array contains the number of clock ticks spent in different CPU states."
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