adding a sysctl man section
Rodney W. Grimes
freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Thu Feb 11 13:44:13 UTC 2021
> Why not add these to section 7 instead? The section is sparsely
> populated as is and those names with lots of dots in them are
> unlikely to collide.
>
> On second thought, no collisions would occur in section 4 either
> it seems. And since most of the links would go to section 4 anyway...
man 7 intro
man 4 intro
man 9 intro
man sysctl
Clearly this goes in section 9?
>
> Yours,
> Robert Clausecker
>
> Am Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 04:15:05PM -0800 schrieb John-Mark Gurney:
> > Inspired by: https://twitter.com/michaeldexter/status/1359614809365311490
> >
> > I realized that we could/should create a new sysctl section. My initial
> > thought was section s, but I'd be open for other recommendations.
> >
> > Then, any page that describes a sysctl, would add an MLINK to it:
> > MLINK+= xhci.4 hw.usb.xhci.debug.s
> >
> > This section would be added to the default search, and then users
> > would simply be able to type: man <sysctl> and get directed to the
> > page that has information about it.
> >
> > Any objections?
None other than location. Its blue, it goes in the blue section :-)
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