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Date:      Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:35:03 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bde@zeta.org.au, config@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Startup userconfig parsing
Message-ID:  <199706091105.UAA27384@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <5464.865853820@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 9, 97 03:57:00 am"

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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> > You read my mind.  It has some wacko arithmetic problems, and the guy
> > must be allergic to ANSI C and Unix systems in general (can you
> > _really_ write to the data segment under SunOS?), but it does
> > seem to be the best bet.
> 
> I just looked at it too - it's pretty easy to rip all the I/O out. 

Yeah, cutting it to the bone would be fairly easy.  I have two problems :

 - It wants to malloc a fair bit.  That may be Bad early in system startup.

 - It fails its regression tests with some stupid results. 
   Try './atlast -iregress' and see if you can work out what the fnord is
   going on.

> "bah" to that, BTW.  atl is self-contained by comparison and you could
> lobotomize it pretty good and then rebuild just the parts you wanted.

Aha.  Well, so far I am just looking for things that are worth doing.

I had this really crazy idea that you could write things like module
load/unload scripts with it...

(runs and hides)

> I say beat the crap out of it. ;)

Ok.

> 						Jordan

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