RE: [MiNT] kernel development

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 1:04 PM
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] kernel development
>
>
> > > why not have the kernel look for /etc/hostname file and ,
> > > if found, export the value as the HOSTNAME string?
> >
> > It's not the kernel's responsibility to set environment variables
> > (other than those explicitly requested in mint.cnf)
>
> Then, can we have the kernel write "setenv HOSTNAME name" to a file?
> sorry if i seem wicked, but i'm just trying to avoid duplicating
> variables in mint.cnf, profile and cshrc if possible.

That's even worse, I'd say :-) In particular the kernel NEVER EVER should
write to a device during boot up.