> How about adding an option to rmmod that puts it in daemon mode, where
> is does the "do { sleep(60); rmmod_main("-a"); } while (1);" loop.
>
> You could then have /sbin/kerneld as a link to /sbin/rmmod, and if the
> updated rmmod went into daemon mode when invoked as "kerneld", people
> would not have to change their startup-scripts at all!
>
> That would make upgrading 2.0 -> 2.2 much easier for a lot of people.
Yeah, or we could sweeten the deal, and change kerneld so that if uname -r
returns 2.1.90 or higher, we simply do that loop, also. That way, people
just have to upgrade modutils, and not mess with scripts.
<shrug>
It's "Let's mess with the userspace utilities" time :)
Greg Zornetzer - gaz+@andrew.cmu.edu
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