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Re: installing rump libs

Subject: Re: installing rump libs
From: der Mouse <mouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:10:15 UTC
Newsgroups: fa.netbsd.tech.kern

> * use of the kernel file system code in various utilities such as
>   fsck and makefs instead of having to rewrite the same code for
>   userspace

I'm not clear what you're proposing here, but if this means that
NetBSD's fsck and friends will depend on running under a NetBSD kernel,
I think it's a fairly serious step backwards.

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