Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step?

From: Rene Herman
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 10:28:30 EST


Olaf Hering wrote:

> I do not want to see kinit merged.

For what it's worth -- I as a user am violently opposed to kinit not being in the source tree, if _anything_ is merged.

Given that's it's intended to take over kernel functionality, kinit would be a tightly coupled piece of software and a number of problems 2.6 has seen are with tightly coupled software (udev, alsa-lib) getting out of sync with the kernel. I believe someone from redhat complained about it last. Adding another tightly coupled external app to the mix is just going to worsen the situation. Please don't do that.

And yes, then there's the issue of keeping distributions all using the same thing which I saw someone else remark on as well. If klibc/kinit is the way forward, please make sure kinit is in the kernel source tree.

Rene.

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