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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