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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:03:54 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, julian@whistle.com
Subject:   Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...
Message-ID:  <199704300233.MAA24918@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970429174652.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> from Simon Shapiro at "Apr 29, 97 09:00:19 am"

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Simon Shapiro stands accused of saying:
> 
> So building a kernel should be:
> 
> cd /usr/src/sys/compile/WHATEVER && make && make install && cd
> /usr/src/lkm...

Only if you've update your kernel sources.

> How does one then maintain several kernel versions without going mad?
> In Linux (sorry), one has /lib/modules/X.y.z.... and a current symlink that
> actualy gets created at boot time by some clever awking of /proc/version.

I normally ensure that development kernels don't use LKMs; if I need
stuff I'll pull it in statically.  Generally a development kernel will
be extremely aggressively stripped down to minimise possible conflicts.

> My activity?  Create noise about threads.  My server engineer tells me they 
> are broken.  how is that?

Which threads?  Are we talking about the pthread code?  It has an owner
and I'm sure he's waiting for bug reports 8)

> Simon

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