Re: 2.1.x config options??

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:27:59 +0000 (GMT)


> Anyone know anything about the following:
>
> CONFIG_FILTER

Allows attaching of BPF filters to sockets. Any socket. So user applications
can push firewall rulesets onto their socket for example.

> CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT

Enable Bekerley still process accounting and the acct() syscall.

> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD

Network block device - you can mount a remote file as a filesystem. This
is _awesome_ with the mirror driver but right now a bit too slow to be very
useful

Alan
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