From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 6 14:04:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA23095 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 14:04:03 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA23088 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 14:04:03 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA07222; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 14:03:09 -0800 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MIT SHM X11 extensions? (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Feb 95 10:59:11 EST." Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 14:03:09 -0800 Message-ID: <7221.792108189@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > mv breaks the connection between the pathname "/386bsd" and the > kernel process in memory. cp does not. most of the time this doesnt > matter. but if the kernel (virtual memory system) decides to get kernel > pages from disk or swap, after you put the new kernel into "/" and before Uhhhhhhh.. The kernel reads itself in from this file a grand total of ONCE. What happens to the file afterwards is between you and the system administrator who comes to kill you after the new /kernel you've moved into place doesn't work at the next reboot.. :-) Jordan