On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > That's not quite true. It wouldn't be too hard to modify existant files, > > > but writing new ones/truncating would take a lot of work. It's still not > > > a great idea to try to use a file on the FS for storage of persistent > > > data. Wouldn't it be possible to have the kernel itself read in persistent > > > data (in some form such as getenv?) to be written to disk? That way, the > > > boot loader could pass it easily, and not have to worry about storage. > > > > This may sound like a heresy to you, but... Why don't use the Forth blocks > > for that? > > For what? Saving parametric data? That was always the plan, but the > last thing I think anyone wants to do is rewrite the ffs code in Forth.
Ugh.. No, of course not. The former, i.e. saving parameters. I'm still sane, you know... :-) Andrzej Bialecki // <ab...@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
