From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 27 16:44:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from web21102.mail.yahoo.com (web21102.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E84137B41B for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:44:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020328004410.9310.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [62.254.0.5] by web21102.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:44:10 PST Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:44:10 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya Reply-To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some info on the kgmon(8) manual page (regarding current) needed To: Robert Watson Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Robert Watson wrote: > I've committed a tweak to the man page, but think that the page may > actually be wrong in a more general sense: kgmon appears to use > getbootfile() so will actually use whatever path the sytem booted with. > While by default that will be /boot/kernel/kernel, it may be something > else, in which case kgmon tries to DTRT. Unless changed with the -N flag it provides. : --- Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : There might be utilities left that use /kernel, instead of the currently : used /boot/kernel/kernel, to find the kernel. This means that before the : manpage is changed, the appropriate source files need to be checked, to : make sure that the manpage reflects what really happens in the programs : themselves. We don't want to blindly substitute /boot/kernel/kernel for : all the instances of /kernel, and make the manpages inconsistent with the : source, right? According to me, the utility shouldn't be using a hardcoded path to the booting kernel, as this would affect kernels which were made by: makeoptions KERNEL=foo #Build kernel "foo" and install "/foo" What are your suggestions? In any case, I will take the precautions which Giorgos has put in place, and will produce the patches accordingly. :) Thanks, -- Hiten Pandya __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message