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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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