On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:00:41AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2007-Mar-24 15:32:00 +0100, Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: >>>> I'd like to have this enabled by default, and I know there should be no >>>> strong objections. >>> >>> I agree -- the memory used by it is very small compared to the amount of >>> memory in modern systems, and the potential administrative benefit is very >>> large. As long as it remains an option, the embedded folk can turn it off >>> easily. >> Ideally, we would include it in a .comment section that wasn't loaded. >> Unfortunately my ELF-foo isn't up to this (I've tried something similar >> many years ago and couldn't get the linker to DWIW). > > In my current implementation, kernel configuration content is converted > to the string and is actually put into separate ELF section. However, > it's not .comment but a loadable section, since otherwise you wouldn't > be able to obtain the configuration of a running system. strings `sysctl -n kern.bootfile` | grep ^___ | sed -e 's/^___//' should still work if it was in a .comment section GavinReceived on Sun Mar 25 2007 - 13:12:43 UTC
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