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It is a non-gpl'ed "unzip" which will allow execution of a.out files which
have been sent through "gzip -9". The idea being saved disk-space.
Just now this code has quality rating: "working prototype".
To compress a file to be used with this, do it exactly this way:
gzip -9 -v < /bin/FOO > /tmp/FOO
remember to chmod /tmp/FOO as needed.
DON'T compress all of you binaries right away ! There are several things
which you should consider first:
1. Using compressed binaries, you use >MUCH< more VM, and thus swap-space.
2. It is slow.
3. It might crash your machine.
Apart from that, I welcome comments...
NB: There is also a change to sys/conf/files, but cvs core-dumped on me,
so it didn't get into the logs or emailed, but the commit seems to have
happended OK.
cycles. While waiting there I added a lot of the extra ()'s I have, (I have
never used LISP to any extent). So I compiled the kernel with -Wall and
shut up a lot of "suggest you add ()'s", removed a bunch of unused var's
and added a couple of declarations here and there. Having a lap-top is
highly recommended. My kernel still runs, yell at me if you kernel breaks.
- Make a number of filesystems work again when they are statically compiled
(blush)
- FIFOs are no longer optional; ``options FIFO'' removed from distributed
config files.
- set args->lkm_offset correctly so that VFS modules can be unloaded
- initialize _fs_vfsops.vfc_refcount correctly so that VFS modules can
be unloaded
- include kernel.h in a few placves to get the correct definition of DATA_SET
This code is mostly taken from the 1.1 port (which was in turn taken from
Dave Mills's kern.tar.Z example). A few significant differences:
1) ntp_gettime() is now a MIB variable rather than a system call. A few
fiddles are done in libc to make it behave the same.
2) mono_time does not participate in the PLL adjustments.
3) A new interface has been defined (in <machine/clock.h>) for doing
possibly machine-dependent things around the time of the clock update.
This is used in Pentium kernels to disable interrupts, set `time', and
reset the CPU cycle counter as quickly as possible to avoid jitter in
microtime(). Measurements show an apparent resolution of a bit more than
8.14usec, which is reasonable given system-call overhead.
otherwise the machine will overflow the stack in a recursive fault loop
(causing the machine to spontaneously reboot because of the stack fault
that ultimately happens).
Submitted by: Inspired by Bruce Evans, but this change is different
than what he suggested.
the Mach/i386 version of the BSD/vax(?) <machine/psl.h>. The Mach
version has slightly better names for many macros but is now out of
date and little used. It was originally used even less (for spelling
PSL_T as EFL_TF in <machine/db_machdep.h>).
