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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-02 18:18:25 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-02 18:18:25 +0000
commit2456a5d3bb3d74c293fa7744b5147152e8bb8249 (patch)
tree4445852685a2d7d92757245765eb7f2437942fcd /lib/libc
parenta90d82a3afcfa6efbe09e2317c360348df6b70b1 (diff)
- rnd(4) does not exist, it is really random(4)
- iteger -> integer - cpus -> CPUs
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/sysctl.326
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index 1dc0687f9d7..eb85054963e 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.23 1999/07/02 18:01:46 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.24 1999/07/02 18:18:24 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_HW
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
-privilege may change the value.
+privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "Second level nameXXXXXX" integerXXX -offset indent
.It Sy Second level name Type Changeable
.It Dv HW_MACHINE No " string no"
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ The machine class.
.It Dv HW_MODEL
The machine model
.It Dv HW_NCPU
-The number of cpus.
+The number of CPUs.
.It Dv HW_BYTEORDER
The byteorder (4,321 or 1,234).
.It Dv HW_PHYSMEM
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_KERN
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
-privilege may change the value.
+privileges may change the value.
The types of data currently available are process information,
system vnodes, the open file entries, routing table entries,
virtual memory statistics, load average history, and clock rate
@@ -286,11 +286,13 @@ information.
The maximum bytes of argument to
.Xr exec 2 .
.It Dv KERN_ARND
-Returns a random iteger from the kernel arc4random function.
+Returns a random integer from the kernel
+.Fn arc4random
+function.
This can be useful if
.Pa /dev/arandom
is not available (see
-.Xr rnd 4 ) .
+.Xr random 4 ) .
.It Dv KERN_BOOTTIME
A
.Li struct timeval
@@ -387,7 +389,7 @@ values will fail with
The third level names for the string and integer profiling information
is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
-privilege may change the value.
+privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "GPROFXGMONPARAMXXX" "struct gmonparamXXX" -offset indent
.It Sy Third level name Type Changeable
.It Dv GPROF_STATE No " integer yes"
@@ -422,7 +424,7 @@ The raw partition of a disk (a == 0).
Returns 1 if saved set-group-ID and saved set-user-ID are available.
.It Dv KERN_SECURELVL
The system security level.
-This level may be raised by processes with appropriate privilege.
+This level may be raised by processes with appropriate privileges.
It may only be lowered by process 1.
.It Dv KERN_SYSVMSG
Returns 1 if System V style message queue functionality is available on this
@@ -460,7 +462,7 @@ The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_NET
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
-privilege may change the value.
+privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "Second level nameXXXXXX" "routing messagesXXX" -offset indent
.It Sy Second level name Type Changeable
.It Dv PF_ROUTE No " routing messages no"
@@ -598,7 +600,7 @@ The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_USER
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
-privilege may change the value.
+privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "USER_COLL_WEIGHTS_MAXXXX" "integerXXX" -offset indent
.It Sy Second level name Type Changeable
.It Dv USER_BC_BASE_MAX No " integer no"
@@ -697,7 +699,7 @@ The string and integer information available for the
.Dv CTL_VM
level is detailed below.
The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
-privilege may change the value.
+privileges may change the value.
.Bl -column "Second level nameXXXXXX" "struct loadavgXXX" -offset indent
.It Sy Second level name Type Changeable
.It Dv VM_LOADAVG No " struct loadavg no"
@@ -757,7 +759,7 @@ array specifies a value that is unknown.
.It Bq Er EPERM
An attempt is made to set a read-only value.
.It Bq Er EPERM
-A process without appropriate privilege attempts to set a value.
+A process without appropriate privileges attempts to set a value.
.It Bq Er EPERM
An attempt to change a value protected by the current kernel security
level is made.