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34.Dd "June 4, 1993"
35.Dt SYSCTL 3
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm sysctl
39.Nd get or set system information
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
42.Fd #include <sys/sysctl.h>
43.Ft int
44.Fn sysctl "int *name" "u_int namelen" "void *oldp" "size_t *oldlenp" "void *newp" "size_t newlen"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Fn sysctl
48function retrieves system information and allows processes with
49appropriate privileges to set system information.
50The information available from
51.Fn sysctl
52consists of integers, strings, and tables.
53Information may be retrieved and set from the command interface
54using the
55.Xr sysctl 8
56utility.
57.Pp
58Unless explicitly noted below,
59.Fn sysctl
60returns a consistent snapshot of the data requested.
61Consistency is obtained by locking the destination
62buffer into memory so that the data may be copied out without blocking.
63Calls to
64.Fn sysctl
65are serialized to avoid deadlock.
66.Pp
67The state is described using a ``Management Information Base'' (MIB)
68style name, listed in
69.Fa name ,
70which is a
71.Fa namelen
72length array of integers.
73.Pp
74The information is copied into the buffer specified by
75.Fa oldp .
76The size of the buffer is given by the location specified by
77.Fa oldlenp
78before the call,
79and that location gives the amount of data copied after a successful call
80and after a call that returns with the error code ENOMEM.
81If the amount of data available is greater
82than the size of the buffer supplied,
83the call supplies as much data as fits in the buffer provided
84and returns with the error code ENOMEM.
85If the old value is not desired,
86.Fa oldp
87and
88.Fa oldlenp
89should be set to NULL.
90.Pp
91The size of the available data can be determined by calling
92.Fn sysctl
93with a NULL parameter for
94.Fa oldp .
95The size of the available data will be returned in the location pointed to by
96.Fa oldlenp .
97For some operations, the amount of space may change often.
98For these operations,
99the system attempts to round up so that the returned size is
100large enough for a call to return the data shortly thereafter.
101.Pp
102To set a new value,
103.Fa newp
104is set to point to a buffer of length
105.Fa newlen
106from which the requested value is to be taken.
107If a new value is not to be set,
108.Fa newp
109should be set to NULL and
110.Fa newlen
111set to 0.
112.Pp
113The top level names are defined with a CTL_ prefix in
114.Pa <sys/sysctl.h> ,
115and are as follows.
116The next and subsequent levels down are found in the include files
117listed here, and described in separate sections below.
118.Pp
119.Bl -column CTLXMACHDEPXXX "Next level namesXXXXXX" -offset indent
120.It Sy Pa Name	Next level names	Description
121.It CTL\_DEBUG	sys/sysctl.h	Debugging
122.It CTL\_VFS	sys/sysctl.h	File system
123.It CTL\_HW	sys/sysctl.h	Generic CPU, I/O
124.It CTL\_KERN	sys/sysctl.h	High kernel limits
125.It CTL\_MACHDEP	sys/sysctl.h	Machine dependent
126.It CTL\_NET	sys/socket.h	Networking
127.It CTL\_USER	sys/sysctl.h	User-level
128.It CTL\_VM	vm/vm_param.h	Virtual memory
129.El
130.Pp
131For example, the following retrieves the maximum number of processes allowed
132in the system:
133.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
134int mib[2], maxproc;
135size_t len;
136.sp
137mib[0] = CTL_KERN;
138mib[1] = KERN_MAXPROC;
139len = sizeof(maxproc);
140sysctl(mib, 2, &maxproc, &len, NULL, 0);
141.Ed
142.sp
143To retrieve the standard search path for the system utilities:
144.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
145int mib[2];
146size_t len;
147char *p;
148.sp
149mib[0] = CTL_USER;
150mib[1] = USER_CS_PATH;
151sysctl(mib, 2, NULL, &len, NULL, 0);
152p = malloc(len);
153sysctl(mib, 2, p, &len, NULL, 0);
154.Ed
155.Sh CTL_DEBUG
156The debugging variables vary from system to system.
157A debugging variable may be added or deleted without need to recompile
158.Fn sysctl
159to know about it.
160Each time it runs,
161.Fn sysctl
162gets the list of debugging variables from the kernel and
163displays their current values.
164The system defines twenty
165.Ns ( Va struct ctldebug )
166variables named
167.Nm debug0
168through
169.Nm debug19 .
170They are declared as separate variables so that they can be
171individually initialized at the location of their associated variable.
172The loader prevents multiple use of the same variable by issuing errors
173if a variable is initialized in more than one place.
174For example, to export the variable
175.Nm dospecialcheck
176as a debugging variable, the following declaration would be used:
177.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
178int dospecialcheck = 1;
179struct ctldebug debug5 = { "dospecialcheck", &dospecialcheck };
180.Ed
181.Sh CTL_VFS
182There are currently no second level names for the file system.
183.Sh CTL_HW
184The string and integer information available for the CTL_HW level
185is detailed below.
186The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
187privilege may change the value.
188.Bl -column "Second level nameXXXXXX" integerXXX -offset indent
189.It Sy Pa Second level name	Type	Changeable
190.It HW\_MACHINE	string	no
191.It HW\_MODEL	string	no
192.It HW\_NCPU	integer	no
193.It HW\_BYTEORDER	integer	no
194.It HW\_PHYSMEM	integer	no
195.It HW\_USERMEM	integer	no
196.It HW\_PAGESIZE	integer	no
197.It HW\_FLOATINGPOINT	integer	no
198.\".It HW\_DISKNAMES	integer	no
199.\".It HW\_DISKSTATS	integer	no
200.El
201.Pp
202.Bl -tag -width "123456"
203.It Li HW_MACHINE
204The machine class.
205.It Li HW_MODEL
206The machine model
207.It Li HW_NCPU
208The number of cpus.
209.It Li HW_BYTEORDER
210The byteorder (4,321, or 1,234).
211.It Li HW_PHYSMEM
212The bytes of physical memory.
213.It Li HW_USERMEM
214The bytes of non-kernel memory.
215.It Li HW_PAGESIZE
216The software page size.
217.It Li HW_FLOATINGPOINT
218Nonzero if the floating point support is in hardware.
219.\".It Fa HW_DISKNAMES
220.\".It Fa HW_DISKSTATS
221.El
222.Sh CTL_KERN
223The string and integer information available for the CTL_KERN level
224is detailed below.
225The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
226privilege may change the value.
227The types of data currently available are process information,
228system vnodes, the open file entries, routing table entries,
229virtual memory statistics, load average history, and clock rate
230information.
231.Bl -column "KERNXMAXFILESPERPROCXXX" "struct clockrateXXX" -offset indent
232.It Sy Pa Second level name	Type	Changeable
233.It KERN\_ARGMAX	integer	no
234.It KERN\_BOOTFILE	string	yes
235.It KERN\_BOOTTIME	struct timeval	no
236.It KERN\_CLOCKRATE	struct clockinfo	no
237.It KERN\_FILE	struct file	no
238.It KERN\_HOSTID	integer	yes
239.It KERN\_HOSTNAME	string	yes
240.It KERN\_JOB\_CONTROL	integer	no
241.It KERN\_MAXFILES	integer	yes
242.It KERN\_MAXFILESPERPROC	integer	yes
243.It KERN\_MAXPROC	integer	yes
244.It KERN\_MAXPROCPERUID	integer	yes
245.It KERN\_MAXVNODES	integer	yes
246.It KERN\_NGROUPS	integer	no
247.It KERN\_NISDOMAINNAME	string	yes
248.It KERN\_OSRELDATE	integer	no
249.It KERN\_OSRELEASE	string	no
250.It KERN\_OSREV	integer	no
251.It KERN\_OSTYPE	string	no
252.It KERN\_POSIX1	integer	no
253.It KERN\_PROC	struct proc	no
254.It KERN\_PROF	node	not applicable
255.It KERN\_SAVED\_IDS	integer	no
256.It KERN\_SECURELVL	integer	raise only
257.It KERN\_UPDATEINTERVAL	integer	no
258.It KERN\_VERSION	string	no
259.It KERN\_VNODE	struct vnode	no
260.El
261.Pp
262.Bl -tag -width "123456"
263.It Li KERN_ARGMAX
264The maximum bytes of argument to
265.Xr execve 2 .
266.It Li KERN_BOOTFILE
267The full pathname of the file from which the kernel was loaded.
268.It Li KERN_BOOTTIME
269A
270.Va struct timeval
271structure is returned.
272This structure contains the time that the system was booted.
273.It Li KERN_CLOCKRATE
274A
275.Va struct clockinfo
276structure is returned.
277This structure contains the clock, statistics clock and profiling clock
278frequencies, and the number of micro-seconds per hz tick.
279.It Li KERN_FILE
280Return the entire file table.
281The returned data consists of a single
282.Va struct filehead
283followed by an array of
284.Va struct file ,
285whose size depends on the current number of such objects in the system.
286.It Li KERN_HOSTID
287Get or set the host id.
288.It Li KERN_HOSTNAME
289Get or set the hostname.
290.It Li KERN_JOB_CONTROL
291Return 1 if job control is available on this system, otherwise 0.
292.It Li KERN_MAXFILES
293The maximum number of files that may be open in the system.
294.It Li KERN_MAXFILESPERPROC
295The maximum number of files that may be open for a single process.
296This limit only applies to processes with an effective uid of nonzero
297at the time of the open request.
298Files that have already been opened are not affected if the limit
299or the effective uid is changed.
300.It Li KERN_MAXPROC
301The maximum number of concurrent processes the system will allow.
302.It Li KERN_MAXPROCPERUID
303The maximum number of concurrent processes the system will allow
304for a single effective uid.
305This limit only applies to processes with an effective uid of nonzero
306at the time of a fork request.
307Processes that have already been started are not affected if the limit
308is changed.
309.It Li KERN_MAXVNODES
310The maximum number of vnodes available on the system.
311.It Li KERN_NGROUPS
312The maximum number of supplemental groups.
313.It Li KERN_NISDOMAINNAME
314The name of the current YP/NIS domain.
315.It Li KERN_OSRELDATE
316The system release date in YYYYMM format
317(January 1996 is encoded as 199601).
318.It Li KERN_OSRELEASE
319The system release string.
320.It Li KERN_OSREV
321The system revision string.
322.It Li KERN_OSTYPE
323The system type string.
324.It Li KERN_POSIX1
325The version of ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX 1003.1) with which the system
326attempts to comply.
327.It Li KERN_PROC
328Return the entire process table, or a subset of it.
329An array of
330.Va struct kinfo_proc
331structures is returned,
332whose size depends on the current number of such objects in the system.
333The third and fourth level names are as follows:
334.Bl -column "Third level nameXXXXXX" "Fourth level is:XXXXXX" -offset indent
335.It Pa Third level name	Fourth level is:
336.It KERN\_PROC\_ALL	None
337.It KERN\_PROC\_PID	A process ID
338.It KERN\_PROC\_PGRP	A process group
339.It KERN\_PROC\_TTY	A tty device
340.It KERN\_PROC\_UID	A user ID
341.It KERN\_PROC\_RUID	A real user ID
342.El
343.It Li KERN_PROF
344Return profiling information about the kernel.
345If the kernel is not compiled for profiling,
346attempts to retrieve any of the KERN_PROF values will
347fail with EOPNOTSUPP.
348The third level names for the string and integer profiling information
349is detailed below.
350The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
351privilege may change the value.
352.Bl -column "GPROFXGMONPARAMXXX" "struct gmonparamXXX" -offset indent
353.It Sy Pa Third level name	Type	Changeable
354.It GPROF\_STATE	integer	yes
355.It GPROF\_COUNT	u_short[\|]	yes
356.It GPROF\_FROMS	u_short[\|]	yes
357.It GPROF\_TOS	struct tostruct	yes
358.It GPROF\_GMONPARAM	struct gmonparam	no
359.El
360.Pp
361The variables are as follows:
362.Bl -tag -width "123456"
363.It Li GPROF_STATE
364Returns GMON_PROF_ON or GMON_PROF_OFF to show that profiling
365is running or stopped.
366.It Li GPROF_COUNT
367Array of statistical program counter counts.
368.It Li GPROF_FROMS
369Array indexed by program counter of call-from points.
370.It Li GPROF_TOS
371Array of
372.Va struct tostruct
373describing destination of calls and their counts.
374.It Li GPROF_GMONPARAM
375Structure giving the sizes of the above arrays.
376.El
377.It Li KERN_SAVED_IDS
378Returns 1 if saved set-group and saved set-user ID is available.
379.It Li KERN_SECURELVL
380The system security level.
381This level may be raised by processes with appropriate privilege.
382It may only be lowered by process 1.
383.It Li KERN_VERSION
384The system version string.
385.It Li KERN_VNODE
386Return the entire vnode table.
387Note, the vnode table is not necessarily a consistent snapshot of
388the system.
389The returned data consists of an array whose size depends on the
390current number of such objects in the system.
391Each element of the array contains the kernel address of a vnode
392.Va struct vnode *
393followed by the vnode itself
394.Va struct vnode .
395.It Li KERN_UPDATEINTERVAL
396The interval between
397.Xr sync 2
398calls in the
399.Xr update 4
400process.
401.El
402.Sh CTL_MACHDEP
403The set of variables defined is architecture dependent.
404The following variables are defined for the i386 architecture.
405.Bl -column "CONSOLE_DEVICEXXX" "struct bootinfoXXX" -offset indent
406.It Sy Pa Second level name	Type	Changeable
407.It Li CPU_CONSDEV	dev_t	no
408.It Li CPU_ADJKERNTZ	int	yes
409.It Li CPU_DISRTCSET	int	yes
410.It Li CPU_BOOTINFO	struct bootinfo	no
411.It Li CPU_WALLCLOCK	int	yes
412.El
413.Sh CTL_NET
414The string and integer information available for the CTL_NET level
415is detailed below.
416The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
417privilege may change the value.
418.Bl -column "Second level nameXXXXXX" "routing messagesXXX" -offset indent
419.It Sy Pa Second level name	Type	Changeable
420.It PF\_ROUTE	routing messages	no
421.It PF\_INET	internet values	yes
422.El
423.Pp
424.Bl -tag -width "123456"
425.It Li PF_ROUTE
426Return the entire routing table or a subset of it.
427The data is returned as a sequence of routing messages (see
428.Xr route 4
429for the header file, format and meaning).
430The length of each message is contained in the message header.
431.Pp
432The third level name is a protocol number, which is currently always 0.
433The fourth level name is an address family, which may be set to 0 to
434select all address families.
435The fifth and sixth level names are as follows:
436.Bl -column "Fifth level nameXXXXXX" "Sixth level is:XXX" -offset indent
437.It Pa Fifth level name	Sixth level is:
438.It NET\_RT\_FLAGS	rtflags
439.It NET\_RT\_DUMP	None
440.It NET\_RT\_IFLIST	None
441.El
442.It Li PF_INET
443Get or set various global information about the internet protocols.
444The third level name is the protocol.
445The fourth level name is the variable name.
446The currently defined protocols and names are:
447.Bl -column "Protocol nameXXXXXX" "Variable nameXXX" "integerXXX" -offset indent
448.It Pa Protocol name	Variable name	Type	Changeable
449.It ip	forwarding	integer	yes
450.It ip	redirect	integer	yes
451.It ip	ttl	integer	yes
452.It icmp	maskrepl	integer	yes
453.It udp	checksum	integer	yes
454.El
455.Pp
456The variables are as follows:
457.Bl -tag -width "123456"
458.It Li ip.forwarding
459Returns 1 when IP forwarding is enabled for the host,
460meaning that the host is acting as a router.
461.It Li ip.redirect
462Returns 1 when ICMP redirects may be sent by the host.
463This option is ignored unless the host is routing IP packets,
464and should normally be enabled on all systems.
465.It Li ip.ttl
466The maximum time-to-live (hop count) value for an IP packet sourced by
467the system.
468This value applies to normal transport protocols, not to ICMP.
469.It Li icmp.maskrepl
470Returns 1 if ICMP network mask requests are to be answered.
471.It Li udp.checksum
472Returns 1 when UDP checksums are being computed and checked.
473Disabling UDP checksums is strongly discouraged.
474.El
475.Sh CTL_USER
476The string and integer information available for the CTL_USER level
477is detailed below.
478The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
479privilege may change the value.
480.Bl -column "USER_COLL_WEIGHTS_MAXXXX" "integerXXX" -offset indent
481.It Sy Pa Second level name	Type	Changeable
482.It USER\_BC\_BASE\_MAX	integer	no
483.It USER\_BC\_DIM\_MAX	integer	no
484.It USER\_BC\_SCALE\_MAX	integer	no
485.It USER\_BC\_STRING\_MAX	integer	no
486.It USER\_COLL\_WEIGHTS\_MAX	integer	no
487.It USER\_CS\_PATH	string	no
488.It USER\_EXPR\_NEST\_MAX	integer	no
489.It USER\_LINE\_MAX	integer	no
490.It USER\_POSIX2\_CHAR\_TERM	integer	no
491.It USER\_POSIX2\_C\_BIND	integer	no
492.It USER\_POSIX2\_C\_DEV	integer	no
493.It USER\_POSIX2\_FORT\_DEV	integer	no
494.It USER\_POSIX2\_FORT\_RUN	integer	no
495.It USER\_POSIX2\_LOCALEDEF	integer	no
496.It USER\_POSIX2\_SW\_DEV	integer	no
497.It USER\_POSIX2\_UPE	integer	no
498.It USER\_POSIX2\_VERSION	integer	no
499.It USER\_RE\_DUP\_MAX	integer	no
500.It USER\_STREAM\_MAX	integer	no
501.It USER\_TZNAME\_MAX	integer	no
502.El
503.Bl -tag -width "123456"
504.Pp
505.It Li USER_BC_BASE_MAX
506The maximum ibase/obase values in the
507.Xr bc 1
508utility.
509.It Li USER_BC_DIM_MAX
510The maximum array size in the
511.Xr bc 1
512utility.
513.It Li USER_BC_SCALE_MAX
514The maximum scale value in the
515.Xr bc 1
516utility.
517.It Li USER_BC_STRING_MAX
518The maximum string length in the
519.Xr bc 1
520utility.
521.It Li USER_COLL_WEIGHTS_MAX
522The maximum number of weights that can be assigned to any entry of
523the LC_COLLATE order keyword in the locale definition file.
524.It Li USER_CS_PATH
525Return a value for the
526.Ev PATH
527environment variable that finds all the standard utilities.
528.It Li USER_EXPR_NEST_MAX
529The maximum number of expressions that can be nested within
530parenthesis by the
531.Xr expr 1
532utility.
533.It Li USER_LINE_MAX
534The maximum length in bytes of a text-processing utility's input
535line.
536.It Li USER_POSIX2_CHAR_TERM
537Return 1 if the system supports at least one terminal type capable of
538all operations described in POSIX 1003.2, otherwise 0.
539.It Li USER_POSIX2_C_BIND
540Return 1 if the system's C-language development facilities support the
541C-Language Bindings Option, otherwise 0.
542.It Li USER_POSIX2_C_DEV
543Return 1 if the system supports the C-Language Development Utilities Option,
544otherwise 0.
545.It Li USER_POSIX2_FORT_DEV
546Return 1 if the system supports the FORTRAN Development Utilities Option,
547otherwise 0.
548.It Li USER_POSIX2_FORT_RUN
549Return 1 if the system supports the FORTRAN Runtime Utilities Option,
550otherwise 0.
551.It Li USER_POSIX2_LOCALEDEF
552Return 1 if the system supports the creation of locales, otherwise 0.
553.It Li USER_POSIX2_SW_DEV
554Return 1 if the system supports the Software Development Utilities Option,
555otherwise 0.
556.It Li USER_POSIX2_UPE
557Return 1 if the system supports the User Portability Utilities Option,
558otherwise 0.
559.It Li USER_POSIX2_VERSION
560The version of POSIX 1003.2 with which the system attempts to comply.
561.It Li USER_RE_DUP_MAX
562The maximum number of repeated occurrences of a regular expression
563permitted when using interval notation.
564.It Li USER_STREAM_MAX
565The minimum maximum number of streams that a process may have open
566at any one time.
567.It Li USER_TZNAME_MAX
568The minimum maximum number of types supported for the name of a
569timezone.
570.El
571.Sh CTL_VM
572The string and integer information available for the CTL_VM level
573is detailed below.
574The changeable column shows whether a process with appropriate
575privilege may change the value.
576.Bl -column "Second level nameXXXXXX" "struct loadavgXXX" -offset indent
577.It Sy Pa Second level name	Type	Changeable
578.It VM\_LOADAVG	struct loadavg	no
579.It VM\_METER	struct vmtotal	no
580.El
581.Pp
582.Bl -tag -width "123456"
583.It Li VM_LOADAVG
584Return the load average history.
585The returned data consists of a
586.Va struct loadavg .
587.It Li VM_METER
588Return the system wide virtual memory statistics.
589The returned data consists of a
590.Va struct vmtotal .
591.El
592.Sh RETURN VALUES
593If the call to
594.Fn sysctl
595is successful, 0 is returned.
596Otherwise \-1 is returned and
597.Va errno
598is set appropriately.
599.Sh ERRORS
600The following errors may be reported:
601.Bl -tag -width Er
602.It Bq Er EFAULT
603The buffer
604.Fa name ,
605.Fa oldp ,
606.Fa newp ,
607or length pointer
608.Fa oldlenp
609contains an invalid address.
610.It Bq Er EINVAL
611The
612.Fa name
613array is less than two or greater than CTL_MAXNAME.
614.It Bq Er EINVAL
615A non-null
616.Fa newp
617is given and its specified length in
618.Fa newlen
619is too large or too small.
620.It Bq Er ENOMEM
621The length pointed to by
622.Fa oldlenp
623is too short to hold the requested value.
624.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
625The
626.Fa name
627array specifies an intermediate rather than terminal name.
628.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
629The
630.Fa name
631array specifies a value that is unknown.
632.It Bq Er EPERM
633An attempt is made to set a read-only value.
634.It Bq Er EPERM
635A process without appropriate privilege attempts to set a value.
636.El
637.Sh FILES
638.Bl -tag -width <netinet/icmpXvar.h> -compact
639.It Pa <sys/sysctl.h>
640definitions for top level identifiers, second level kernel and hardware
641identifiers, and user level identifiers
642.It Pa <sys/socket.h>
643definitions for second level network identifiers
644.It Pa <sys/gmon.h>
645definitions for third level profiling identifiers
646.It Pa <vm/vm_param.h>
647definitions for second level virtual memory identifiers
648.It Pa <netinet/in.h>
649definitions for third level Internet identifiers and
650fourth level IP identifiers
651.It Pa <netinet/icmp_var.h>
652definitions for fourth level ICMP identifiers
653.It Pa <netinet/udp_var.h>
654definitions for fourth level UDP identifiers
655.El
656.Sh SEE ALSO
657.Xr sysctl 8
658.Sh HISTORY
659The
660.Fn sysctl
661function first appeared in
662.Bx 4.4 .
663