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To: David Yeske <dyeske@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: imgact_gzip.c 
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In message <20030606221137.44110.qmail@web13504.mail.yahoo.com>, David Yeske wr
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>imgact_gzip.c seems to be pretty stale.  Has anyone considered fixing this?  If this were fixed
>then kldload() / linker_load_module() could deal with a gzipped .ko file, and gzipped elf
>executables would work also?

At least originally imgact_gzip.c was heavily a.out aware.

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