On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, David Brownlee wrote:
Index: src/distrib/common/runlist.sh
[...]
+( while [ X$1 != X ]; do
+ cat $1
+ shift
+done ) | awk -f ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/distrib/common/list2sh.awk | ${SHELLCMD}
Why is the while loop necessary? Why not just use
awk -f
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:05:38AM +0100, Nick Hudson wrote:
People are most welcome to fix this ugliness
properly by helping to get rid of link sets in the kernel.
I'm glad you agree that link sets are ugly. On the matter of a getting rid of
them I did offer to discuss a solution, but
On Sep 18, 2009, at 9:10 AM, David Laight wrote:
It is all rather similar to the proliferation of memory pools - for
things where 'malloc' would be fine.
The old-school kernel malloc was almost never fine ... but pools
have another advantage -- use of a direct-mapped segment on
