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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 1995 19:28:28 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        efb@cotdazr.org (Everett F Batey)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Lost my original /sbin/dset -q values
Message-ID:  <199510291828.TAA02187@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951029173722.9013A-100000@gcpacix.vcnet.com> from "Everett F Batey" at Oct 29, 95 05:46:18 pm

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As Everett F Batey wrote:
> 
> Looking at strings of /dev/dset .. homed me in on /kernel and 
> /cdrom/kernel.Gen which are (per md5) identical .. 

dset(8) writes directly into the kernel.  Of course, if your /kernel
and /kernel.GENERIC are hard-linked, it's no surprise that ``both''
kernels are affected.  (Huh, Jordan?  We shouldn't hardlink them at
installation time!)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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