From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 1:30: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5619215060 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 01:30:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id JAA57133; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:29:16 GMT Message-ID: <36EE246C.53002A58@tdx.co.uk> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:29:16 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Jon Passki , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Kernel Config References: <36ED2459.95632872@neicoltech.org> <36ED2849.18696835@tdx.co.uk> <19990316095503.O429@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: >>> # POSIX - Do I need posix for basic day to day usage, >>> # or is this geared towards programming compatibility? >>> options "P1003_1B" >>> options "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING" >>> options "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L" >> >> These are the defaults AFAIK, they shouldn't cause you any problems... > >They're not the defaults, and they're not well documented. I started >looking through the code, but there's little information there. I'd >suggest leaving it alone unless you have a good reason. They 'almost' made it to 3.1 as defaults, you'll need them if you want to run StarOffice 5 (along with the linux threads patches etc.) - I think theres a couple of other ports/utils that might need them as well... > Agreed. I'd recommend both these options, *if* you know how to use ddb. I'd certainly second that... :) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message