| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:57:54 -0500 |
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:30:36AM -0500, Chris Beggy wrote: > Debian uses the openboot firmware to directly fetch a > bootstrapping linux kernel image and root file system. The image > is about 2.3M, and the size is only limited by sparc memory, > since it's fetched by tftp. Bootp isn't involved, but some > things would be easier if it were. Aha. It is definitely possible to get a NetBSD kernel+base image via tftp. It is, again, something you'd have to specially configure locally, not our standard way of dealing with installation. > By the way, you can write your shell scripts in scheme now :-) : > > http://www.scsh.net/ I've known: % head -2 /usr/pkgsrc/shells/scsh/Makefile # $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.16 2001/10/02 11:07:15 seb Exp $ # FreeBSD Id: Makefile,v 1.4 1997/07/15 15:00:30 cracauer Exp The fact that you can doesn't make it a good idea. You *can* run the following as root: #!/bin/sh $0 & $0 & (Please, don't.) ;^> (Sure, overflowing your proc table is probably a greater evil than treating shell scripting as list processing or, worse, doing a list processing job as a shell script. But not definitely.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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