Ted Unangst wrote:

> This is incorrect.  This file is not for documentation, it is for
> configuration.  If the user adds a new option to the file, it does not
> suddenly become commonly used.

Ok.  What is intended in the proposed changes is that the list be
identified as intentionally a subset of those available.

I'll leave subsequent tries to those that won't be guessing...

/Lars

Index: sysctl.conf
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/sysctl.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -p -r1.47 sysctl.conf
--- sysctl.conf 9 Jun 2009 11:52:54 -0000       1.47
+++ sysctl.conf 14 Jan 2010 18:05:19 -0000
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #      $OpenBSD: sysctl.conf,v 1.47 2009/06/09 11:52:54 sthen Exp $
 #
-# This file contains a list of sysctl options the user wants set at
-# boot time.  See sysctl(3) and sysctl(8) for more information on
-# the many available variables.
+# This file contains a list of the sysctl options the user chooses to
+# set at boot time and is a subset of those available.  See sysctl(3)
+# and sysctl(8) for more information on the many variables available.
 #
 #net.inet.ip.forwarding=1      # 1=Permit forwarding (routing) of IPv4 packets
 #net.inet.ip.mforwarding=1     # 1=Permit forwarding (routing) of IPv4
multicast packets

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