svn commit: r217830 - head/share/man/man9

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 26 09:37:14 UTC 2011


On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Matthew D Fleming wrote:

> .Dv SBUF_AUTOEXTEND .
> .Pp
> The
> +.Fn sbuf_new_for_sysctl
> +function will set up an sbuf with a drain function to use
> +.Fn SYSCTL_OUT
> +when the internal buffer fills.
> +The sysctl old buffer will be wired, which allows for doing an
> +.Fn sbuf_printf
> +while holding a mutex.
> +.Pp
> +The
> .Fn sbuf_delete
> function clears the
> .Fa sbuf

Hmm.  Is this description missing mention of how wiring failures are handled? 
(Also, it should probably mention that this call can sleep for potentially 
quite long periods of time, even if sbuf_printf (and friends) can't).

Robert


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