From owner-cvs-sys Tue Apr 22 03:25:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA06474 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com ([140.145.230.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA06461; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 03:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA24438; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:24:11 +0200 (CEST) To: Michael Smith cc: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), bde@zeta.org.au, jdp@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 src/sys/i386/i386 setdef0.c setdef1.c setdefs.h identcpu.c locore.s machdep.c sw In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:40:40 +0930." <199704221010.TAA15185@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:24:10 +0200 Message-ID: <24436.861704650@critter> Sender: owner-cvs-sys@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199704221010.TAA15185@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Michael Smith writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: >> >> I'd rather dig into my archives and find my notes and prototype "registry" >> thing and get that moving then. sysctl is way to limited for my taste >> anyway. > >If you can bandaid this for a little while, the 'registry' thing is on >my short-term list with the PAM integration. (Unless someone wants to >throwm money at me for something else 8) > >Having said that, if your kernel Registry stuff can be bopped from >userland (I seem to recall that it can), then it'd be as good a >bandaid as any. Well, my design stalled trying to avoid bloating the kernel. Serious design issues are still outstanding. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.