> Probably right, although it's never been clear to me why some things > have '*' and some don't. For example etherN=XXXXX is used only by > the kernel, but it still gets passed in the normal '#e' environment > to processes.
i'd say that it's a bit of parsimony that we didn't get right. quite similar in its dog-always-on-wrong-side-of-door nature to bourne shell's "export". > How about > *fossilpercent=NN > *ventipercent=NN > *kfspercent=NN let's make it "fsmb". that way we need not enumerate file servers. i've always found listing things in mb is easier to work out. maybe i'm applying bad experiences with percentage-based partitions, and *kernelpercent incorrectly. (if i have *kernelpercent=9 or 10 and 3000mb of memory, how much kernel memory do i get and why? how much memory would i get if i specified nothing? i think the answer is 73.8125mb any way for a cpu server, and 256mb for a terminal, using the distribution's algorithms.) - erik
