Subject: misc/30793: sysctl documentation request
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From: None <netbsd@eq.cz>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/20/2005 14:47:00
>Number: 30793
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: sysctl has incomplete documentation
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 20 14:47:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: netbsd@eq.cz
>Release: NetBSD 2.0.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD pete.thinline.cz 2.0.2 NetBSD 2.0.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Mar 23 08:53:42 UTC 2005 jmc@faith.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/i386/200503220140Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
There are some undocumented MIB names actually available to be set using sysctl.
Comparing 'sysctl -a' output on netbsd-2 to 'current' src/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 and focusing on 'net.inet', these could be found:
net.inet.ip.hostzerobroadcast
net.inet.ip.ifq.len
net.inet.ip.ifq.drops
net.inet.ip.random_id
net.inet.icmp.returndatabytes
net.inet.tcp.delack_ticks
>How-To-Repeat:
Compare 'sysctl -a' and 'man 8 sysctl' and 'man 3 sysctl'.
>Fix:
I hope someone who understands it could find few minutes to tune src/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 and src/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8.
>Unformatted: