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Date:      Sat, 17 Aug 2002 17:30:21 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <20020817163021.GA2666@idoru.tenten>
In-Reply-To: <20020816214856.D59091@abigail.blackend.org>
References:  <200208152105.g7FL5Lv6014947@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020816084433.GD20494@idoru.tenten> <20020816214856.D59091@abigail.blackend.org>

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On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:48:56PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille said:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:05:21PM -0700, Marc Fonvieille said:
> > > blackend    2002/08/15 14:05:21 PDT
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking 
> > >                                                        chapter.sgml 
> > >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu chapter.sgml 
> > >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip chapter.sgml 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Remove deprecated -w option for sysctl.
> > >   
> > >   PR:             docs/41666
> > >   Submitted by:   Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>
> > 
> > I missed my chance to follow up to the PR, but since sysctl still works
> > with the -w option, might it be better to keep this in?
> 
> I removed it only from Handbook as it covers the 4.X branch, to be
> consistent with the examples given by sysctl(8), the commands used in
> rc.* files and also all manual pages mentioning sysctl (natd(8) for
> example).

Yeah, I know that ;)

What I'm asking is whether folks think it might be an idea to keep the -w
since then anyone with a pre-4.5 (ish?) machine will be able to follow the
examples as well, since at the moment sysctl just ignores -w.

If nobody does, that's cool too, but you obviously don't agree else you
wouldn't have committed the change !

Having said that, I've just checked and this option was deprecated on RELENG_4
over a year ago, so maybe we should be forcing people into date.

I don't care, I'm just asking what folks think.

Ceri

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