Re: A couple "normal user" questions..

Nick Holloway (Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk)
2 Feb 1997 10:50:28 -0000

alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
> I don't want 8K of my kernel wasted because I can't remember to save config
> files.

I have a discovered a way to store the configuration, which only requires
16 bytes (32 if stored in ascii). This could be appended to the output of
'uname -v'

$ sed -n 's/CONFIG_\(.*\)=y/\1/p' .config | md5sum
6d1565d41a236978dfc1622d9e00fb3b

I must admit, I haven't developed the program to reverse the operation :-)

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