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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 05:15:44 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: vishwanath pargaonkar <vishubp@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel size..
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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:51:18AM +0100, vishwanath pargaonkar wrote:
> Hi,
> i have free bsd 4.2 stable.
> i did some changes may be 10-15 lines to kernel
> source.
> but thing i am amazed is kernel size.
> size of kernel.GENERIC is 3258128.
> but as of my kernel is 13068130 when i cheked it.
> my kernel is stable there is no probs.
> but y is size soo big??

It includes debug symbols, which are stripped out when kernel.debug is
copied to /kernel.

Kris

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