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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man7 Document kern.arandom, and remove kern.autoni...
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/496221ebbe89
branches: trunk
changeset: 754101:496221ebbe89
user: jruoho <jruoho%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Tue Apr 20 07:58:16 2010 +0000
description:
Document kern.arandom, and remove kern.autonicetime and kern.autoniceval.
XXX: Although no sysctl variables exist for the last two, these are still
defined in <sys/sysctl.h> and <sys/systm.h>.
diffstat:
share/man/man7/sysctl.7 | 23 ++++++++---------------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diffs (48 lines):
diff -r 1588134ccc31 -r 496221ebbe89 share/man/man7/sysctl.7
--- a/share/man/man7/sysctl.7 Tue Apr 20 07:33:45 2010 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man7/sysctl.7 Tue Apr 20 07:58:16 2010 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: sysctl.7,v 1.43 2010/04/20 07:33:45 jruoho Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: sysctl.7,v 1.44 2010/04/20 07:58:16 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -239,10 +239,8 @@
.Bl -column "kern.posix_reader_writer_locks" \
"struct kinfo_drivers" "not applicable"
.It Sy Second level name Type Changeable
-.\".It kern.arandom integer no
+.It kern.arandom integer no
.It kern.argmax integer no
-.It kern.autonicetime integer yes
-.It kern.autoniceval integer yes
.It kern.boothowto integer no
.It kern.boottime struct timeval no
.\".It kern.bufq node not applicable
@@ -330,20 +328,15 @@
.It kern.vnode struct vnode no
.El
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
-.\".It Li kern.arandom
-.\" XXX: Undocumented.
+.It Li kern.arandom
+This variable picks a random number each time it is queried.
+The used random number generator
+.Pq Tn RNG
+is based on
+.Xr arc4random 3 .
.It Li kern.argmax ( KERN_ARGMAX )
The maximum bytes of argument to
.Xr execve 2 .
-.\" XXX: Is kern.autonicetime still available?
-.It Li kern.autonicetime ( KERN_AUTONICETIME )
-The number of seconds of CPU-time a non-root process may accumulate before
-having its priority lowered from the default to the value of KERN_AUTONICEVAL.
-If set to 0, automatic lowering of priority is not performed, and if set to \-1
-all non-root processes are immediately lowered.
-.\" XXX: Is kern.autoniceval still available?
-.It Li kern.autoniceval ( KERN_AUTONICEVAL )
-The priority assigned for automatically niced processes.
.It Li kern.boothowto
Flags passed from the boot loader; see
.Xr reboot 2
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