Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 14:12:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: j_orthoefer@tia.net (Joseph D. Orthoefer) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel config part of /kernel Message-ID: <199605311812.OAA03556@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960531130542.9965C-100000@mailbox.tia.net> from "Joseph D. Orthoefer" at May 31, 96 01:13:20 pm
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> > Does anybody remember how kernels built with the 1.1.5 release always had > a copy of its config file tacked onto the binary, that could be viewed > with a quick "strings /386bsd|more". Is this something anyone else would > like to see back in the kernel builds? > > Just floating a thought, > Joseph D. Orthoefer > > Me, for one. I didn't want to see it go -- but it was shot down as a waste of memory for the stuff to be in there... I found it useful and we did it at Pyramid in OS/x. (How about conditional compilation to config to allow/disallow it) Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win96 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.
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