Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:08:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loadable aio Message-ID: <200112310508.fBV58MI03596@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:56:30 EST." <20011230215630.B45114@espresso.q9media.com>
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> Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> 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...
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