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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: newvers.sh changes
Date: 23 Feb 93 02:09:59
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl's message of 22 Feb 93 21:38:32 GMT
In article <1mbh4o$nve@wzv.win.tue.nl> guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
[ way to get newvers to include kernel name info ]
good one; that's the exact reason that i put the kernel name stuff
as params to the newvers script. (in standard BSD systems, it's run
with no args.)
actually, it's not hard to extend this to include all of the
compile-time flags in a table, and then to write a small utility
to extract them.
this can be useful, to, e.g. set NFS_SERVER appropriately
in /etc/netstart *automatically* depending on whether NFS support
is compiled into the kernel...
(i can think of other uses, too: if multicast stuff compiled in,
start up mrouted, etc.)
i had diffs to do all of this, a while ago, but that was under like 0.0...
as of right now, i don't have the time... 8-) maybe in a week.
chris
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