Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:03:33 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Ben Smithurst <csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manual page review: connect(2) EAGAIN error Message-ID: <20010118180333.A89516@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200101181547.KAA29035@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:47:00AM -0500 References: <20010118113453.A25127@comp.leeds.ac.uk> <20010118115155.B25127@comp.leeds.ac.uk> <200101181547.KAA29035@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:47:00AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:51:55 +0000, Ben Smithurst <csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk> said:
>
> >> +Increasing the
> >> +.Va net.inet.ip.portrange.last
> > +sysctl variable
> >> +(which defaults to 5000) may help this problem.
>
> We really should define a special markup for these so that it is not
> necessary to so frequently repeat this.
>
> POSIX uses {braces} for potentially-configurable system parameters
> such as {NGROUPS_MAX} or {PATH_MAX}. I think sysctl(8) nodes are of
> a similar flavor, so perhaps all we need is a macro for braces (which
> we already have) and a .Er/.Dv analogue, call it .Sc or something like
> that.
>
The {braces} macro is only provided in mdocNG as .Brq or .Bro/.Brc pair.
mdoc(7) already has the .Va (generic) macro for variables. So I think
the ``.Brq Va sysctl.variable'' should be used. Why introduce .Sc?
Cheers,
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