Subject: Re: Making UFS optional
To: None <deraadt@fsa.ca, tech-kern@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu, ws@tools.de>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/05/1994 21:38:02
> Actually, I want to tell everyone and remind Chris of a problem we
> ran into with libkern.
> 
> Chris wrote an LKM which he loaded into the kernel. It needed
> strncpy, but strncpy is in libkern. Hence strncpy wasn't there,
> and the LKM load failed.
> 
> This points out a rather silly problem with having these functions
> be in libkern.. any thoughts from anyone?

Couldn't this simply be solved by adding libkern.a to the modload ld
command?

This way, the LKM could include the functions itself...
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