Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: removal of brk()/sbrk().
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/04/2002 15:05:26
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:39:37PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Monday, March 4, 2002 at 10:52:10 (-0500), Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: removal of brk()/sbrk().
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:12:23AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> > > GENERIC *is* our example configuration.  There's a couple extras on some
> > > ports, like FOURMEG et al, and those intended for small memory machines
> > 
> > "A couple"?  i386 has *24*.
> > 
> > Some of these are GENERIC_XYZ configurations, and some are INSTALL_XYZ, 
> > but there are a lot more than "a couple" of others.  And if they're not
> > "examples", why are they in our distribution?
> 
> The INSTALL_* kernels are not really "examples".  They are very specific

I am curious just how, exactly, you parsed my text as an English sentence
and decided that the referent of "they" and "they're" was anything but
"others".

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
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