Subject: Re: mib list in sysctl.8
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/03/2006 22:44:50
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:28:53PM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 07:10:44PM +0200, Elad Efrat wrote:
> > Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> >
> > > I've uploaded the proposed manpages to
> > > www.netbsd.org/~pavel/sysctl.{3,7,cat3,cat7}
> >
> > I would like to point out that because this is not an urgent fix, we
> > should not postpone the removal of the big list from sysctl.8 too;
> > otherwise we still have to update two man-pages instead of one, which
> > was the real purpose of the change.
>
> Sure, no problem with the removal of the list from sysctl.8 ...
To be more precise, I propose to commit the changes to sysctl.8 - removal
of the list and of the header file references and addition of xrefs
to sysctl.7 - together with the proposed change or shortly after.
Pavel