Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:58:56 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Greg Zornetzer <> | | Subject | Re: Testers wanted: exorcised kmod.c: no more daemon! |
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Henrik Storner wrote:
> How about adding an option to rmmod that puts it in daemon mode, where > is does the "do { sleep(60); rmmod_main("-a"); } while (1);" loop. > > You could then have /sbin/kerneld as a link to /sbin/rmmod, and if the > updated rmmod went into daemon mode when invoked as "kerneld", people > would not have to change their startup-scripts at all! > > That would make upgrading 2.0 -> 2.2 much easier for a lot of people. Yeah, or we could sweeten the deal, and change kerneld so that if uname -r returns 2.1.90 or higher, we simply do that loop, also. That way, people just have to upgrade modutils, and not mess with scripts. <shrug> It's "Let's mess with the userspace utilities" time :)
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