Author: jilles Date: Sun Apr 25 12:35:39 2010 New Revision: 207186 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/207186
Log: sysctl(3): Update description of various kern.* variables. Also add xrefs for confstr(3) (as sysconf(3) but for strings) and kvm(3) (which is a more convenient way to access some of the variables). PR: 116480 MFC after: 1 week Modified: head/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 Modified: head/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 Sun Apr 25 05:09:08 2010 (r207185) +++ head/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 Sun Apr 25 12:35:39 2010 (r207186) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)sysctl.3 8.4 (Berkeley) 5/9/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd February 21, 2010 +.Dd April 25, 2010 .Dt SYSCTL 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ information. .It "KERN_BOOTFILE string yes" .It "KERN_BOOTTIME struct timeval no" .It "KERN_CLOCKRATE struct clockinfo no" -.It "KERN_FILE struct file no" +.It "KERN_FILE struct xfile no" .It "KERN_HOSTID integer yes" .It "KERN_HOSTUUID string yes" .It "KERN_HOSTNAME string yes" @@ -342,14 +342,14 @@ information. .It "KERN_OSREV integer no" .It "KERN_OSTYPE string no" .It "KERN_POSIX1 integer no" -.It "KERN_PROC struct proc no" +.It "KERN_PROC node not applicable" .It "KERN_PROF node not applicable" .It "KERN_QUANTUM integer yes" .It "KERN_SAVED_IDS integer no" .It "KERN_SECURELVL integer raise only" .It "KERN_UPDATEINTERVAL integer no" .It "KERN_VERSION string no" -.It "KERN_VNODE struct vnode no" +.It "KERN_VNODE struct xvnode no" .El .Bl -tag -width 6n .It Li KERN_ARGMAX @@ -370,10 +370,8 @@ This structure contains the clock, stati frequencies, the number of micro-seconds per hz tick and the skew rate. .It Li KERN_FILE Return the entire file table. -The returned data consists of a single -.Va struct filehead -followed by an array of -.Va struct file , +The returned data consists of an array of +.Va struct xfile , whose size depends on the current number of such objects in the system. .It Li KERN_HOSTID Get or set the host ID. @@ -525,10 +523,8 @@ Note, the vnode table is not necessarily the system. The returned data consists of an array whose size depends on the current number of such objects in the system. -Each element of the array contains the kernel address of a vnode -.Va struct vnode * -followed by the vnode itself -.Va struct vnode . +Each element of the array consists of a +.Va struct xvnode . .El .Ss CTL_NET The string and integer information available for the CTL_NET level @@ -854,6 +850,8 @@ An attempt is made to set a read-only va A process without appropriate privilege attempts to set a value. .El .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr confstr 3 , +.Xr kvm 3 , .Xr sysconf 3 , .Xr sysctl 8 .Sh HISTORY _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
