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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!think.com!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [NetBSD-0.9] Some questions Date: 29 Aug 1993 15:36:15 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 33 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Aug29113616@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <25p1ig$h5a@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca's message of 28 Aug 1993 21:42:40 -0400 In article <25p1ig$h5a@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes: I've been fiddling with NetBSD 0.9 for a few days now, and had a few questions about it. Most are a result of my own ignorance, [...] No comment. 1. What is this kernfs thing enabled by option KERNFS? It is a file system that presents information about the kernel, like load average, hostname, copyright notice, etc. I mount it on /kern: kern /kern kernfs rw Is this some 4.4 BSD feature? It has nothing to do with 4.4. 2. Is there a libdbm for NetBSD? It's in libc. 3. In the kernel currently, my system has the option MATH_EMULATE Does this mean that ALL my programs thus far that are using floating point are emulating it? No. It means that if you didn't have a floating point coprocessor, the kernel will emulate it. You don't need MATH_EMULATE if you have a coprocessor.