From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 4 20:46:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA17840 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 20:46:48 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA17835 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 20:46:42 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA27321; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 15:19:49 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511050449.PAA27321@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: More nits To: grog@lemis.de Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 15:19:48 +1030 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511041418.PAA19341@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Nov 4, 95 03:18:11 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1025 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey stands accused of saying: > I'm not really bitching about this. I tend to agree that 4MB is too > little memory for anything useful, but I still think it's worth > drawing to people's attention that we *don't* want a System V, and > that there are virtues in small, lean systems. And I agree that now > that the config stuff is a permanent component of the kernel, it > probably won't go away. All the more reason to bear the problems in > mind before starting the project. Just to point out that detaching userconfig() would be _very_ simple; if anyone wants diffs to add a NOUSERCONFIG option I'll happily produce them. > Greg -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[