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Branden Robinson" To: Seth McDonald Cc: Collin Funk , Alejandro Colomar , linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] sys/man2/sysctl.2: HISTORY: wfix Message-ID: <20251230072756.c25thnpent43mjma@illithid> References: <1477de655f76e1e6e85c12cb03c068b120704511.1767072049.git.sethmcmail@pm.me> <87zf70xxog.fsf@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="htpnki7i4hydzdhh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --htpnki7i4hydzdhh Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] sys/man2/sysctl.2: HISTORY: wfix MIME-Version: 1.0 At 2025-12-30T07:18:50+0000, Seth McDonald wrote: > > [1] https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=3D2.11BSD/src/man/man3/s= ysctl.3 >=20 > That would be good to include, though we may need to first modify > standards(7) since 2.11BSD currently isn't listed there (the earliest > mentioned is 3BSD). The date on that file, 1993, strongly suggests a backport from the then-getting-finalized 4.4BSD (which settled out over the course of 1994 and into 1995 depending on whether one considers the "Encumbered" or "Lite" versions mandated by the settlement of the USL v. BSDI lawsuit). 4.3BSD, by contrast, dates to 1986. See my previous mail. So in that sense, a sysctl()-bearing 2.11BSD is more recent than 4.3BSD. I suggest the Linux man-pages project not attempt to track the provenance or timeline of 2.11BSD features. It's too much work. 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