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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Plan for integrating Secure RPC -- comments wanted
To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 15:50:47 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <12149.850751059@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Dec 16, 96 04:44:19 pm
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> >Do we really want to make people recompile the kernel to get DES support?
> 
> Not really.
> 
> The trouble is that we cannot load a LKM until we have a RW fs :-(

Because the kernel doesn't know its own symbols, and because the LKM
external reference relocation is done in user space, when it should
be done in system space.

Not because the idea itself requires a RW FS, but because (my) broken
implementation from early 1994 uses the user space ld to build an
object.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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