i remember having to do something like that with hp-ux 10.20

where it relinked the kernel or such

into the 00s

richlowe: I have this vague notion that it generated one or maybe a couple *.c files that defined global variables containing config parameters -- the sort of things we set in /etc/system today.

i found it amusing that they made such a big deal about when all of that went away

and when you could set the sysv limits and just reboot

in 11.x

in like 2002

[illumos-gate] 18197 RFC1918 addresses get site-local scope defeating RFC 6724 destination selection -- Andy Fiddaman <illumos⊙fn>

[illumos-gate] 18212 mdb: nv_var_alloc() error: strcpy() 'name' too large for 'v->v_lname' -- Toomas Soome <tsoome⊙mc>

[illumos-gate] 17173 mdb: check sign expansion -- Toomas Soome <tsoome⊙mc>

yeah, as far as I remember, all it really compiled was a list of global variables and their values into a .o to be linked with the rest, before you could set values via /etc/system

yeah that sounds a lot like what HP-UX did (at least through 10.20 until they finally moderinized a bit)

though they also unhelpfully didn't document the valid values you could set

or at least well enough.. I think it was two sysv semaphores whose product had to be < 16386 (i.e. almost certainly fit in a int16_t)

err two sysv ipc semphore parameters

and if they didn't... you just crashed