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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Howcum I get errors when compiling the kernel?
Date: 10 Jul 1995 09:42:51 +0200
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Rob Simons <rob@Simplex.simplex.nl> wrote:
>Mikhail Teterin (mi@cs.bu.edu) wrote:
>: Just mv the old kernel to kernel.old and then mv the new kernel to /kernel...
>: That's what make install does, basicly, AFAIK. Do not forget to reboot...
>
>Might be a good idea to just *copy* the old kernel to kernel.old, since
>you'll be up shit creek when the machine crashes somewhere in between
>the move.
Nope. The move is not across file system boundaries, so it's an
`atomic' operation. One of both names will always remain in the
directory; the worst that could happen in case of a crash is that
you've got both names. The operation itself is effectively the same
as ``ln kernel kernel.old; rm kernel, which you can also use if you're
paranoid. It's less wasteful than copying.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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