From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 27 19:27:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from web21109.mail.yahoo.com (web21109.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03AEC37B421 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:27:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020328032714.37588.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [62.254.0.5] by web21109.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:27:14 PST Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:27:14 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya Reply-To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some info on the kgmon(8) manual page (regarding current) needed To: Robert Watson Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, keramida@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Robert Watson wrote: > I'd avoid your later changes involving describing how getbootfile() relies > on sysctl in the kgmon(8) man page. That's an implementation detail of > the API, not of kgmon, and while it probably won't change, putting the > information there increases the chances of it getting stale, as well as > exposing system MIB information that has a well-documented API for > accessing it. Talking about the possible failure modes of the call > probably is relevant, since that impacts correct functionality of > kgmon(8). Giorgos' patch, modulo reference to -N, is probably the right > answer. Understood. :-) -- Hiten __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message