Re: Linux (free s/w) support
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:47:36 -0700 (PDT)
> In some mail I received from H. Peter Anvin, sie wrote
> >
> > Just one word: sysctl.
>
> > Tuning the system *while running*.
>
> mmm, adb
>
> > By the way, where is the Solaris /etc/system stuff documented? Last
> > year I searched for quite a while without finding any docs at all...
>
> Any variable that is declared as an extern for a module can be set in
> /etc/system. So you might say that /usr/include/sys/* and similar files
> document the acceptable values, etc.
Wow, I thought we said that poking around in C source didn't count as
"user friendly"? What changed, all of a sudden?
-hpa