From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 30 7:26:33 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F286B37B405; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:26:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@starjuice.net) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.seasidesoftware.co.za) by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15RE11-00046K-00; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:27:27 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Yar Tikhiy Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.8 src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:18:14 MST." <200107301418.f6UEIEc28798@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:27:27 +0200 Message-ID: <15766.996503247@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:18:14 MST, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > Modified files: > sbin/sysctl sysctl.8 > share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 > Log: > Since the ``-w'' sysctl(8) option has been deprecated, > don't mention it in the manpages. Great. Now we're growing a base system full of utilities that will accept (and apparently use, who knows?) undocumented command-line options. The -w option should be documented until such time as sysctl(8) does not accept it as a valid option. I suspect that if people understood how much work goes into deprecating features, they'd think twice about gratuitous changes. :-( Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message