svn commit: r207681 - stable/7/lib/libc/gen
Jilles Tjoelker
jilles at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 5 22:07:29 UTC 2010
Author: jilles
Date: Wed May 5 22:07:28 2010
New Revision: 207681
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/207681
Log:
MFC r207186: sysctl(3): Update description of various kern.* variables.
Also add xrefs for confstr(3) (as sysconf(3) but for strings) and kvm(3)
(which is a more convenient way to access some of the variables).
PR: 116480
Modified:
stable/7/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
Directory Properties:
stable/7/lib/libc/ (props changed)
stable/7/lib/libc/stdtime/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/7/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
==============================================================================
--- stable/7/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 Wed May 5 22:06:05 2010 (r207680)
+++ stable/7/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 Wed May 5 22:07:28 2010 (r207681)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)sysctl.3 8.4 (Berkeley) 5/9/95
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 10, 2007
+.Dd April 25, 2010
.Dt SYSCTL 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ information.
.It "KERN_BOOTFILE string yes"
.It "KERN_BOOTTIME struct timeval no"
.It "KERN_CLOCKRATE struct clockinfo no"
-.It "KERN_FILE struct file no"
+.It "KERN_FILE struct xfile no"
.It "KERN_HOSTID integer yes"
.It "KERN_HOSTUUID string yes"
.It "KERN_HOSTNAME string yes"
@@ -340,14 +340,14 @@ information.
.It "KERN_OSREV integer no"
.It "KERN_OSTYPE string no"
.It "KERN_POSIX1 integer no"
-.It "KERN_PROC struct proc no"
+.It "KERN_PROC node not applicable"
.It "KERN_PROF node not applicable"
.It "KERN_QUANTUM integer yes"
.It "KERN_SAVED_IDS integer no"
.It "KERN_SECURELVL integer raise only"
.It "KERN_UPDATEINTERVAL integer no"
.It "KERN_VERSION string no"
-.It "KERN_VNODE struct vnode no"
+.It "KERN_VNODE struct xvnode no"
.El
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width 6n
@@ -369,10 +369,8 @@ This structure contains the clock, stati
frequencies, the number of micro-seconds per hz tick and the skew rate.
.It Li KERN_FILE
Return the entire file table.
-The returned data consists of a single
-.Va struct filehead
-followed by an array of
-.Va struct file ,
+The returned data consists of an array of
+.Va struct xfile ,
whose size depends on the current number of such objects in the system.
.It Li KERN_HOSTID
Get or set the host ID.
@@ -526,10 +524,8 @@ Note, the vnode table is not necessarily
the system.
The returned data consists of an array whose size depends on the
current number of such objects in the system.
-Each element of the array contains the kernel address of a vnode
-.Va struct vnode *
-followed by the vnode itself
-.Va struct vnode .
+Each element of the array consists of a
+.Va struct xvnode .
.El
.Ss CTL_MACHDEP
The set of variables defined is architecture dependent.
@@ -869,6 +865,8 @@ An attempt is made to set a read-only va
A process without appropriate privilege attempts to set a value.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr confstr 3 ,
+.Xr kvm 3 ,
.Xr sysconf 3 ,
.Xr sysctl 8
.Sh HISTORY
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