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<project cat='kern'>
  <title>Sysctl enhancements</title>

  <contact>
    <person>
      <name>
        <given>Conrad</given>
        <common>Meyer</common>
      </name>
      <email>cem@FreeBSD.org</email>
    </person>
    <person>
      <name>
        <given>Ravi</given>
        <common>Pokala</common>
      </name>
      <email>rpokala@FreeBSD.org</email>
    </person>
    <person>
      <name>
        <given>Marcelo</given>
        <common>Araujo</common>
      </name>
      <email>araujo@FreeBSD.org</email>
    </person>
  </contact>

  <links>
    <url href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types#Fixed-width_integer_types">Wikipedia on C99 Fixed-width integer types</url>
    <url href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203918">sysctl(8) -t Submission PR</url>
  </links>

  <body>
    <p>
      This quarter, support was added for fixed-width sysctls (signed and unsigned 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit).  The new KPIs are documented in the sysctl(9) manual page.  The sysctl(8) command line tool supports all of the new types.
      
      Sysctl(8) gained the '-t' flag, which prints sysctl type information (original patch submitted by Yoshihiro Ota).  This support includes the newly added fixed-width types.
    </p>
  </body>

  <sponsor>
    EMC / Isilon Storage Division
  </sponsor>

  <help></help>
</project>
