Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/utils/sysinst

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> In article <20090223225148.0F3CE175D0%cvs.netbsd.org@localhost>,
> Andrew Doran  <ad%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > Module Name:    src
> > Committed By:   ad
> > Date:           Mon Feb 23 22:51:48 UTC 2009
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >         src/distrib/utils/sysinst: disks.c
> >
> > Log Message:
> > - Mount /proc automatically. We have fixed a ton of bugs, it's needed for
> >  Linux compat, and we are planning to kill ptrace and make the debugger
> >  use /proc instead.
> >
> > - kernfs is hosed at the moment and nothing appears to rely on it any more,
> >  so disable it. (IPsec did at one point, IIRC).
>
> I think the standalone dmesg depends on it.

        Some of the installers still use cat /kern/msgbuf instead of
        sbin/dmesg (I think sbin/dmesg may end up being smaller than
        the space taken up by kernfs in the kernel). I'm happy to
        take a pass through distrib to fix the remaining ones up to
        use sbin/dmesg...

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