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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-02 18:01:47 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-02 18:01:47 +0000
commit2b134b7ab7f993f32b5f93a74270cce785f7c962 (patch)
treee7513f92d3a462e4d2e9d0ed016702ee1a05f20c /lib/libc
parent1c493c0b5f47f128ef725a4d6b0a6990e15d093a (diff)
some formatting fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/sysctl.325
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index 5647894d9ce..1dc0687f9d7 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.22 1999/07/02 16:57:48 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.23 1999/07/02 18:01:46 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -287,8 +287,10 @@ The maximum bytes of argument to
.Xr exec 2 .
.It Dv KERN_ARND
Returns a random iteger from the kernel arc4random function.
-This can be useful if /dev/arandom is not available, see
-.Xr rnd 4 .
+This can be useful if
+.Pa /dev/arandom
+is not available (see
+.Xr rnd 4 ) .
.It Dv KERN_BOOTTIME
A
.Li struct timeval
@@ -483,14 +485,16 @@ The variables are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width "123456"
.It Li encap.encdebug
Returns 1 when error message reporting is enabled for the host.
-If the kernel has been compiled with the ENCDEBUG option,
+If the kernel has been compiled with the
+.Dv ENCDEBUG
+option,
then debugging information will also be reported when this variable is set.
.El
.It Dv PF_ROUTE
Return the entire routing table or a subset of it.
The data is returned as a sequence of routing messages (see
.Xr route 4
-for the header file, format and meaning).
+for the header file, format, and meaning).
The length of each message is contained in the message header.
.Pp
The third level name is a protocol number, which is currently always 0.
@@ -529,7 +533,7 @@ The variables are as follows:
Returns 1 when
.Tn IP
forwarding is enabled for the host,
-meaning that the host is acting as a router.
+indicating the host is acting as a router.
.It Li ip.redirect
Returns 1 when
.Tn ICMP
@@ -560,12 +564,13 @@ is returned specifying the bitmask of
.Tn TCP
ports between 512
and 1023 inclusive that should not be allocated dynamically
-by the kernel (ie: they must be bound specifically by port number).
+by the kernel (i.e., they must be bound specifically by port number).
.It Li tcp.ident
A structure
.Li struct tcp_ident_mapping
-specifying a local and foreign endpoint of a tcp socket
-is filled in with the euid and ruid of the process that owns the socket.
+specifying a local and foreign endpoint of a
+.Tn TCP
+socket is filled in with the euid and ruid of the process that owns the socket.
If no such socket exists then the euid and ruid values are both
set to \-1.
.It Li tcp.sack
@@ -681,7 +686,7 @@ The version of POSIX 1003.2 with which the system attempts to comply.
The maximum number of repeated occurrences of a regular expression
permitted when using interval notation.
.It Dv USER_STREAM_MAX
-The minimum maximum number of streams that a process may have open
+The maximum number of streams that a process may have open
at any one time.
.It Dv USER_TZNAME_MAX
The minimum maximum number of types supported for the name of a