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On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:00:45AM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> My first thought it that a sysctl.conf(4) (should that be section 5?)

Yes, of course I meant 5. Sigh.

> would be duplicating sysctl(3) and sysctl(8) (which both also have
> duplication).

sysctl(3) seems to have most of what I hadn't found in sysctl(8) and
wanted an options-like page for.  So most of what I wanted that page
for we already have, I'd just missed it.

If there's duplication and confusion now, perhaps the right answer is
to factor out the description of the meaning of each variable/knob to
a sysctl.conf(5) or sysctl(7), and leave the existing pages to talk
about the access mechanism / api rather than the actual settings.
Certainly, the description in sysctl(3) indexed by cpp macro names
rather than sysctl node names isn't the most convenient.

But I'll leave that up to whoever wants to actually do the work.

--
Dan.
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