Attachment 19193 Details for Bug 34184 – file.diff

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>Index: sysctl.8
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8,v
>retrieving revision 1.43
>diff -u -r1.43 sysctl.8
>--- sysctl.8	16 Jan 2002 06:55:29 -0000	1.43
>+++ sysctl.8	22 Jan 2002 22:14:20 -0000
>@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@
> .Pp
> The information available from
> .Nm
>-consists of integers, strings, and opaques.
>+consists of integers, strings, devices (dev_t),
>+and opaque types.
> .Nm Sysctl
> only knows about a couple of opaque types, and will resort to hexdumps
> for the rest.
>@@ -135,7 +136,17 @@
> .Xr sysctl 3 .
> .Pp
> The changeable column indicates whether a process with appropriate
>-privilege can change the value.
>+privilege can change the value. String, integer, and devices
>+values can be set using
>+.Xr sysctl 8 .
>+For device values,
>+.Ar value
>+can be specified as a character special file name. Special
>+values
>+.Ar off
>+and
>+.Ar none
>+denote ``no device''.
> .Bl -column security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf integerxxx
> .It Sy "Name	Type	Changeable
> .It "kern.ostype	string	no
>@@ -164,6 +175,7 @@
> .It "kern.osreldate	string	no
> .It "kern.bootfile	string	yes
> .It "kern.corefile	string	yes
>+.It "kern.dumpdev	dev_t	yes
> .It "kern.logsigexit	integer	yes
> .It "security.bsd.suser_enabled	integer	yes
> .It "security.bsd.see_other_uids	integer	yes
>@@ -213,6 +225,14 @@
> per uid to 1000, one would use the following request:
> .Pp
> .Dl "sysctl kern.maxprocperuid=1000"
>+.Pp
>+The device used for crash dumps can be specified using:
>+.Pp
>+.Dl "sysctl kern.dumpdev=/dev/somedev
>+.Pp
>+which is strictly equivalent to
>+.Pp
>+.Dl "dumpon /dev/somedev
> .Pp
> Information about the system clock rate may be obtained with:
> .Pp

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