Re: ideas 3

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:30:29PM -0400, Gary Thorpe wrote:
> Ed wrote:
> >................................................................
> >
> >I know that DF is still "under construction", but I would suggest to think 
> >about strip-ping the system/kernel for a complete release. This should cut 
> >down the space needed on the disk and in RAM.
> >
> >................................................................
> 
> Unfortunately, a lot of the BSDs have utilities that REQUIRE being able 
> to extract kernel symbols and/or read the symbol table. E.g. netstat, 
> vmstat, etc. Would this prevent stripping of the kernel in Dragonfly? I 
> agree that the system executables can be stripped for a release (no 
> barriers I can think of).

Almost all userland programs still using kvm to directly acces the kernel
memory instead of using sysctl can be considered either buggy or broken.

<hint>A nice project of its own is to identify those programs and replace
them with proper sysctl versions.c</hint>

Joerg