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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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