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authorPhilip Guenthe <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-01-14 22:25:06 +0000
committerPhilip Guenthe <guenther@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-01-14 22:25:06 +0000
commit4fae72fbe227311eae86baa97678fa0d8047ba20 (patch)
tree76b7690bb643a4c791de33e3fd4376a8f469b1ca /lib/libc/gen
parent8f69c960bcd7dc2f71af6ec2327d311faf603455 (diff)
Document hw.ncpufound and HW_NCPUFOUND.
Document the interpretation of the third and fourth levels of KERN_FILE2. Document that KERN_FILE and KERN_PROC are deprecated in favor of KERN_FILE2 and KERN_PROC2. ok and tweaks jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/sysctl.325
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index 143de821d58..0ccccc9d63b 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.191 2010/01/03 16:43:45 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.192 2010/01/14 22:25:05 guenther Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 3 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 14 2010 $
.Dt SYSCTL 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ privileges may change the value.
.It Dv HW_MACHINE No " string no"
.It Dv HW_MODEL No " string no"
.It Dv HW_NCPU No " integer no"
+.It Dv HW_NCPUFOUND No " integer no"
.It Dv HW_PAGESIZE No " integer no"
.It Dv HW_PHYSMEM No " integer no"
.It Dv HW_PHYSMEM64 No " int64_t no"
@@ -330,7 +331,9 @@ The machine class.
.It Dv HW_MODEL
The machine model.
.It Dv HW_NCPU
-The number of CPUs.
+The number of CPUs being used.
+.It Dv HW_NCPUFOUND
+The number of CPUs found.
.It Dv HW_PAGESIZE
The software page size.
.It Dv HW_PHYSMEM
@@ -548,6 +551,10 @@ Note that using this interface exposes duplicate entries which are
consolidated by the userland frontend.
.It Dv KERN_FILE
Return the entire file table.
+This name is deprecated, as the layout of the returned structures
+is not a stable ABI; use
+.Dv KERN_FILE2
+instead.
The returned data consists of a single
.Li struct filehead
followed by an array of
@@ -559,6 +566,14 @@ Like
but an array of
.Li struct kinfo_file2
structures is returned.
+The third and fourth level names are as follows:
+.Bl -column "Third level nameXXXXXX" "Fourth level is:XXXXXX" -offset indent
+.It Sy Third level name Fourth level is:
+.It Dv KERN_FILE_BYFILE No " Zero"
+.It Dv KERN_FILE_BYPID No " A process ID"
+.It Dv KERN_FILE_BYUID No " A user ID"
+.El
+.Pp
The fifth level name is the size of the
.Li struct kinfo_file2
and the sixth level name is the number of structures to return.
@@ -685,6 +700,10 @@ The version of ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX 1003.1) with which the system
attempts to comply.
.It Dv KERN_PROC
Return the entire process table, or a subset of it.
+This name is deprecated, as the layout of the returned structures
+is not a stable ABI; use
+.Dv KERN_PROC2
+instead.
An array of
.Li struct kinfo_proc
structures is returned,