From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 20 9: 1:48 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FD037B423; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA04859; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:57:49 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:54:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Bruce Evans Cc: Peter Wemm , Doug Rabson , "Matthew N. Dodd" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > It's more a matter of what should a standalone executive program assume about > > an environment. In my opinion, it's safer to not assume bss clearing by your > > loader. > > IMO, the kernel shouldn't assume anything about the environment except > whatever is needed to bootstrap (the pc initialized to put to boot > code in the kernel, and the stack initialized or interrupts disabled). > The loader shouldn't know anything about executable formats. It should > loader should copy a file from the disk and jump to the appropriate entry > point. We're outnumbered here, Bruce. The young turks have pulled a foolish MicroSoft like move on us. We'd better hang it up......:-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message