From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 30 21: 0: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918B037B41C; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBV58MI03596; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112310508.fBV58MI03596@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Barcroft Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loadable aio In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:56:30 EST." <20011230215630.B45114@espresso.q9media.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:08:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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 > Terry Lambert writes: > > There is so much "goo" around the module loading these days; there > > are incursions into "mount" and all sorts of other programs that > > should not know about module loading. > > The kldload(2) interface alone is enough to make me cringe. The way > in which it locates a module to load appears to be black magic. What part of searching a path for a matching file is "black magic"? Shells have been doing this for decades... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message