seth.i.mcdonald@gmail.com writes:

> From: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>
>
> Include 4.4BSD in the initial list in HISTORY, rather than stating the
> function's origin in 4.4BSD as a full sentence. This is more concise and
> consistent with other man pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>
> ---
>  man/man2/sysctl.2 | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/man2/sysctl.2 b/man/man2/sysctl.2
> index c59acff553..6566c4f5be 100644
> --- a/man/man2/sysctl.2
> +++ b/man/man2/sysctl.2
> @@ -73,11 +73,10 @@ .SH ERRORS
>  .SH STANDARDS
>  Linux.
>  .SH HISTORY
> +4.4BSD,
>  Linux 1.3.57.
>  Removed in Linux 5.5, glibc 2.32.
>  .P
> -It originated in
> -4.4BSD.
>  Only Linux has the
>  .I /proc/sys
>  mirror, and the object naming schemes differ between Linux and 4.4BSD,

It actually existed before 4.4BSD. It existed in 2.11BSD at least [1].

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[1] https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.11BSD/src/man/man3/sysctl.3