Re: New snapshot of modutils

Lenart Gabor (lgb@oxygene.terra.vein.hu)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:57:34 +0100


On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 12:29:32PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> Bjoern Ekwall wrote:
>
> > Please note that the depmod and modprobe utilities are back to C++.
> > This is a result of a discussion in linux-kernel last week, and
> > this is the way it has to be, in consideration of all involved.
>
> What??? Can somebody qoute a line or two from the last week
> discussions which would touch the language topic at all. I cannot
> recall any. This would cause a massive breakage. Can you spell
> "a boot floppy"? Apparently not. Talking about "a result of a
> discussion" and "in consideration of all involved" sounds to me
> really disingenuous.
>
> Also on small systems this would mean a choice between a monolithic
> kernel, statically linked modutils (memory footprint) or non-optional
> now C++ shared libraries (significant memory footprint as well).
> This may be significant or at least PITA. Big sigh!

Right ! Now I found some problem with modutils so I write some own C
code to handle modules instead of nowdays-buggy-modutils. (and I wanted
to learn something with this task)
If modultils switch into C++ I'm continuing coding my own utils
to handle modules for myself since C++ ugly and we've got many diskless
and low memory client without any extra c++ lib or something similar.

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