Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:54:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009200853490.3071-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009210119140.3550-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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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
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