HEADS UP: vimage - virtualized global variables in the network stack

Bjoern A. Zeeb bz at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 13 20:40:09 UTC 2008


On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Warner Losh wrote:

Hi,

>> Is there (an easy) way to have the tinderbox build every other run without
>> VIMAGE_GLOBALS so that the most obvious error (global available, but not in
>> the container struct - or the other way around) can be warned about?
>
> This actually points out why the 'tinderbox' name is bogus for the
> universe plus failure: universe builds all the kernels.  Tinderbox
> builds LINT only.

And GENERIC and you are right, but that's the wrong thread. Please
talk to Alfred about this. I really feel that he should back out what
he has done.

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                      The greatest risk is not taking one.


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