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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> >   Why can't these be handled like setting device setttings (IRQs,
> > baseports, etc)?  Boot with a "-c" to change them, before the kernel is
> > really running, and then write the changes into kernel after boot with
> > dset.
> 
> Because it's a totally different mechanism than editing isa_device
> structures in userconfig? Are you volunteering to make the changes
> that many have discussed but no one has undertaken in order to
> support generalized variable setting in userconfig? ;-)
> 
> 					Jordan

  Am I right in assuming that the only two items that need to be changable
are:

 - max num of open files (which is based on maxusers now)
 - number of mbuf clusters (which is based on maxusers too)

?

Tom