On Feb 16, 2005, at 12:18 PM, kamel derouiche wrote:

> As I have been only working on NetBSD/i386, I've no
> idea about the implementation and facts of sysctl(8)
> on others "Unix-like" systems . Therefore I want to
> now if sysctl(3) is different according to the system
> that is
> running on.

sysctl(8) documents the sysctl command-line utility.  sysctl(3) 
documents the API in libc that the sysctl command-line utility uses.

-- thorpej