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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: Some info on the kgmon(8) manual page (regarding current) needed
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On 2002-03-27 16:44, Hiten Pandya wrote:

> --- Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> 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.
>
> According to me, the utility shouldn't be using a hardcoded path to the
> booting kernel...

How about http://people.FreeBSD.org/~keramida/diff/kgmon.txt ?

This was made after I chatted a bit with Robert Watson, and I'd like your
comments before making any more changes to that poor manpage.  If we reword
bits here and there and finally make it reflect as closely as possible what
the code does, it will be cool :)

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/


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