--On Wednesday, 09 January, 2002 9:34 PM +0000 Anton Altaparmakov
<aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> seriously point: ls /sbin gives a /maximum/ range I'd
>> have thought.
>
> Partition discovery is currently done within the kernel itself. The code
> will effectively 'just' move out into user space.
Apologies - of course; I meant ls /sbin union {anything moved
out of kernel} gives a maximum range. I could find rationales,
some more questionable than others, for about half the stuff
in /sbin (for instance, if you are mounting NFS over IP, you
/might/ want to have iptables support in there before you start
playing with ip operations which without them might cause
a comprimized root to be mounted - I said /might/).
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