Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:14:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net, dfr@nlsystems.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unloading LKMs (was Re: A Desparate Plea for Help...) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970501121205.8517N-100000@zen.cypher.net> In-Reply-To: <199705011716.KAA04240@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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i think my statement was taken the wrong way. i think it is a Good Thing to break up the kernel into dynamically loadable modules. solaris is just the operating system i use most that is structured in that way. on the subject of solaris, is anyone thinking about a crash-like program to provide a unified interface for viewing and setting kernels parameters and status? b3n On Thu, 1 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > welcome to solaris. > > > > > How about a statically loaded version of the kernel? I mean, will it now > > > be nothing more than an aggregate of some modules? It would be nice if > > > all there were were modules, and to make yourself a kernel, you just > > > had to stick them together.. > > Which makes it no less nice for it being invented there first. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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