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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 | 26 |
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. |