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Date:      Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:29:06 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.org>
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 
Message-ID:  <17255.996503346@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:27:27 %2B0200." <15766.996503247@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> 

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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:27:27 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> >   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.

By the way, Yar isn't the guy who made a mistake.  The examples in the
sysctl(8) manual page shouldn't use -w.  But the option should be
documented.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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