Re: >256 fd patch...

mdean (mdean@best.com)
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:43:55 -0800 (PST)


must be a pine user ....

On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 thoth@purplefrog.com wrote:

> bofh@snoopy.virtual.net.au ,in message <199703200627.RAA09332@snoopy.virtual.ne
> t.au>, wrote:
>
> > If you are compiling a new kernel from source each time you install a new
> >> version (as most people in this mailing list probably do) then that is true.
> >> However I expect that in the near future most Linux users will be installi
> >> ng binary kernels without having the knowledge to compile their own kernel (
> >> if this hasn't happened already). IMHO to support such use of Linux and to
> >> compete effectively with lesser OSs we need to make these things tunable.
>
> I can see it now, a little graphical dialog box that says "You have to
> recompile your kernel and reboot to activate this feature. Do it now?"
>
> BTW, dude, your paragraphs have no newlines. It sucks.
>
> ---
> Bob Forsman thoth@gainesville.fl.us
> http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/
>