From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 9 11:33:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06490 for current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:33:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06485; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03931; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:31:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802091931.LAA03931@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Mike Smith , Terry Lambert , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Custom init(8) (and some ideas) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 12:09:52 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:31:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What you're suggesting really is "execute-in-place", which is quite a > > tough thing to implement. > > I suppose that's what I was thinking about :-). The whole issue is a bit > beyond my knowledge, but I'm learning... Consider putting all the binaries into a just-right-sized MFS inside the kernel, and then kzipping it. Then you can play with XIP. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message