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Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 1998 02:23:10 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        mike@smith.net.au, nate@mt.sri.com
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@watermarkgroup.com
Subject:   Re: Stuff in /sbin and /usr/sbin (was Re: full path of sysctl in bsd.port.mk? )
Message-ID:  <199812021523.CAA17703@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> It is generally useful; witness the context of the discussion.
>
>No, it's not.  Just because we've hammered it into submission doesn't
>make it any more generically useful.  Sysctl is a FreeBSD-only utility,
>and as such can not be counted on to do anything useful in anything but
>FreeBSD.  As such, users should not be expected to know what it does,

sysctl is a 4.4BSD utility.

Bruce

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