Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:16:31 -0800 From: Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, audit@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extending loader(8) for loading kerels/modules split across several disks Message-ID: <200203072016.g27KGVs02007@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 2002 11:57:52 PST." <3C87C640.E26DE955@mindspring.com>
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> Michael Smith wrote: > > Should you care to be informed rather than playing from the sidelines, > > see the primitive 'stacking' used to implement transparent gzipped file > > support in libstand. > > The only place this is referred to as a "stack" at all is in > one comment in the libstand.3 man page, which hardly excuses > you ripping me a new one. So because I called it a "stack" I *must* have been referring to the kernel, not actually the loader (since that's only mentioned in the subject line and implicitly throughout my message)? Get real, Terry. > Also the way the operations are encapsulated (not stacked, > since a stack could be reordered) is by directly calling > "read", rather than calling through a "stack". This is an implementation detail. -- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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