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pmcstat: Warn about text output format stability.

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The formats for pmcstat(8)'s human-readable output are not part of its
user interface definition, and may change in the future.  Highlight
this in its manual page.

Approved by:	gnn (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39249
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Joseph Koshy 2023-03-24 09:39:08 +00:00
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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd August 17, 2020
.Dd March 24, 2023
.Dt PMCSTAT 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ counting and sampling flavors.
The values of all counting PMCs are printed in human readable form
at regular intervals by
.Nm .
The format of
.Nm Ns 's
human-readable textual output is not stable, and could change
in the future.
The output of sampling PMCs may be configured to go to a log file for
subsequent offline analysis, or, at the expense of greater
overhead, may be configured to be printed in text form on the fly.