From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 17 9:38:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03A4937B408 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:38:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 84452 invoked by uid 100); 17 Aug 2001 16:38:53 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15229.18589.94540.823358@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:38:53 -0500 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel bloat X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently started reading -hackers and noticed something disturbing: a lot of people asking how to do things in the kernel that seem to blatantly not belong there. This makes me wonder if there's a writeup somewhere that provides guidance on such matters? Thanx, http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message