From owner-freebsd-config Mon Jun 9 04:05:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA17252 for config-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 04:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA17247 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 04:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id UAA27384; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:35:04 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706091105.UAA27384@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Startup userconfig parsing In-Reply-To: <5464.865853820@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 9, 97 03:57:00 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:35:03 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bde@zeta.org.au, config@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[