svn commit: r47920 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Dec 29 06:49:43 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Tue Dec 29 06:49:42 2015
New Revision: 47920
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47920

Log:
  Add report on improvements to sysctl from cem
  
  It now supports fixed-width integer types, and the command-line utility
  can display type information for returned values with -t

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Tue Dec 29 06:43:26 2015	(r47919)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml	Tue Dec 29 06:49:42 2015	(r47920)
@@ -163,4 +163,53 @@
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>Sysctl enhancements</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Conrad</given>
+	  <common>Meyer</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>cem at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ravi</given>
+	  <common>Pokala</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>rpokala at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Marcelo</given>
+	  <common>Araujo</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>araujo at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types#Fixed-width_integer_types">Wikipedia Entry on C99 Fixed-Width Integer Types</url>
+      <url href="https://bugs.FreeBSD.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203918">sysctl(8) -t Submission PR</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p> This quarter, support was added for fixed-width sysctls
+	(signed and unsigned 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit
+	integers).  The new KPIs are documented in the sysctl(9) manual
+	page.  The sysctl(8) command line tool supports all of the new
+	types.</p>
+	
+      <p>Sysctl(8) gained the '-t' flag, which prints sysctl type
+	information (the original patch was submitted by Yoshihiro Ota).
+	This support includes the newly added fixed-width types.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>EMC / Isilon Storage Division</sponsor>
+  </project>
 </report>
