re: CVS commit: src

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger writes:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:56:26PM +0300, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > >Log Message:
> > >Introduce new sysctls for obtaining interface-specific addresses:
> > >- net.sdl for the active link-layer adddress (the MAC)
> > >- net.ether.multicast for the Ethernet multicast addresses
> > >- net.inet6.multicast for the IPv6 multicast groups
> > >- net.inet6.multicast_kludge for temporarily removed multicast groups
> > 
> > Please document these in sysctl(7).
> 
> I don't see a point in that. They are not for human consumption.

then why bother exporting them?

or are you saying the people who might want to write or modify
the tools that use these sysctls don't deserve documentation?

IMO, every system call / sysctl interface should be documented,
regardless of the consumer.


.mrg.