[ale] RE: sorry so blond

[Chris Fowler]

You can do what I did.  Rewrite most of everything
used.  That way you *know* what it is doing.  

I'll give you an example.  I removed sysVinit 2.58 and
replaced it with mine.  I do not support run levels.  I 
do not need them.  I found a bug in a tty driver becuase my
init would fire off jobs extremely fast. The tty driver could
not handle the all the open()'s at nearly the same time.  I
had to place a minor nanosleep in the fire() function.

I hate PAM.  I can not stand miss typing my password and having to 
wait almost 2 seconds to get another login because PAM is
cleaning itself up.

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Turner [mailto:artic_knight at yahoo.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:24 PM
To: Chris Fowler
Subject: RE: sorry so blond


hmm yea i guess the current optimizations are good for
me too, i just seen this asm distro on a disk (cant
remember where) and used it from the hard disk, man it
was fast! supposedly supported new programs too it was
very stripped down and clean in code i think. seemed
sweet, my understanding of codes and processors is
when we use the optimizations with gcc it adds
features to the code, perhaps corrects certain coding
features but its still usable on all i586 or i686
processors which some are intel and some amd, my
understanding is these different "i686" processors use
different assembly codes, thus the program generaged
my gcc is still larger than it has to be if it was
optimized for the specific processor its being used
on. i dunno, maybe i should get off this kick im on
:-p i just started fooling with linux hevily this last
month, (have used it off and on for a couple years)
and i started wondering about some aspects of it,
curiosity mostly, after seeing that  linux on floppy
encoded in asm i got very interested in why not
makeing my linux box like that? the only trouble with
useing that floppy distro is you have to dl gcc and
use it along side it if you plan to make it your
standard os, and then well, the whole os still wont be
optimized... dont get me wrong tho gcc is the best
compiler ive seen! i just think i can optimize/recode
my os better somehow cause its not running like that
one did. maybe i should lay off the caffine......

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