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.\" $OpenBSD: mount_kernfs.8,v 1.3 1996/06/23 14:31:22 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mount_kernfs.8,v 1.6 1995/03/18 14:57:24 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This code is derived from software donated to Berkeley by
.\" Jan-Simon Pendry.
.\"
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\"
.\" @(#)mount_kernfs.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 3/27/94
.\"
.Dd March 27, 1994
.Dt MOUNT_KERNFS 8
.Os BSD 4.4
.Sh NAME
.Nm mount_kernfs
.Nd mount the /kern file system
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm mount_kernfs
.Op Fl o Ar options
.Ar /kern
.Ar mount_point
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm mount_kern
command attaches an instance of the kernel parameter
namespace to the global filesystem namespace.
The conventional mount point is
.Pa /kern .
This command is normally executed by
.Xr mount 8
at boot time.
.Pp
The filesystem includes several regular files which can be read,
some of which can also be written.
The contents of the files is in a machine-independent format,
either a string, or an integer in decimal ASCII.
Where numbers are returned, a trailing newline character is also added.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl o
Options are specified with a
.Fl o
flag followed by a comma separated string of options.
See the
.Xr mount 8
man page for possible options and their meanings.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width copyright -compact
.It Pa boottime
the time at which the system was last booted (decimal ASCII).
.It Pa byteorder
the _BYTE_ORDER for this kernel.
.It Pa copyright
kernel copyright message.
.It Pa hostname
the hostname, with a trailing newline.
The hostname can be changed by writing to this file.
A trailing newline will be stripped from the hostname being written.
.It Pa domainname
the domainname, with a trailing newline, behaves like a hostname.
.It Pa hz
the frequency of the system clock (decimal ASCII).
.It Pa loadavg
the 1, 5 and 15 minute load average in kernel fixed-point format.
The final integer is the fix-point scaling factor.
All numbers are in decimal ASCII.
.It Pa machine
the architecture this kernel compiled for.
.It Pa model
the model of the processor this machine running on.
.It Pa msgbuf
the kernel message buffer, also read by
.Xr syslogd 8 ,
through the
.Pa log
device, and by
.Xr dmesg 8 .
.It Pa ncpu
the number of CPUs in this machine.
.It Pa ostype
the OS type for this kernel ("OpenBSD").
.It Pa osrelease
the release number of the OS.
.It Pa osrev
the revision number of the OS (BSD from <sys/param.h>).
.It Pa pagesize
the machine pagesize (decimal ASCII).
.It Pa posix
the _POSIX_VERSION for this kernel.
.It Pa physmem
the number of pages of physical memory in the machine (decimal ASCII).
.\" .It Pa root
.\" the system root directory.
.\" In a chroot'ed environment,
.\" .Nm
.\" can be used to create a new
.\" .Pa /kern
.\" mount point.
.\" .Pa /kern/root
.\" will then refer to the system global root, not the current process root.
.It Pa rootdev
the root device.
.It Pa rrootdev
the raw root device.
.It Pa time
the second and microsecond value of the system clock.
Both numbers are in decimal ASCII.
.It Pa usermem
the number of pages of physical memory available for user processes.
.It Pa version
the kernel version string.
The head line for
.Pa /etc/motd
can be generated by running:
.Dq Ic "sed 1q /kern/version"
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mount 2 ,
.Xr unmount 2 ,
.Xr fstab 5 ,
.Xr dmesg 8 ,
.Xr mount 8 ,
.Xr syslogd 8
.Sh CAVEATS
This filesystem may not be NFS-exported.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm mount_kernfs
utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.
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