Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:37:35 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, mi@aldan.ziplink.net Subject: Re: last snapshot's LINT Message-ID: <199702120937.UAA09391@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Among other things, there is a non-documented option MSGSSZ there, >set to 9. In sysv_msg.c the value is expected to be power of two, >otherwise the whole thing panics. Not a bad thing, since LINT is not supposed to be runnable. It only supposed to test all options at compile time. I'll change MSGSSZ to 16. >IMHO, i386/conf/LINT should set it properly and the value should >be corrected on the fly (possible with a warning) instead of >panicing. Too much for an undocumented option. >Can the author comment on what is tuned by the various MSG* parameters? The author doesn't seem to be active in FreeBSD. According to ancient history, the System V IPC code was written by Danny Boulet, chewed on a bit by NetBSD, and ported to an ancient version of FreeBSD by Jeffrey Hsu. According to modern history, it was obtained frome NetBSD and FreeBSD-1.1.5. Bruce
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