From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Oct 9 20:20:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA05156 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 20:20:54 -0700 Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA05151 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 20:20:47 -0700 Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA29035; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 23:20:14 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 23:20 EDT Received: from lakes (lakes [192.96.3.39]) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id VAA02999; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 21:47:29 -0400 Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA01689; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 22:02:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 22:02:38 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199510100202.WAA01689@lakes> To: lcs.mit.edu!wollman@dg-rtp.dg.com, lyndon@orthanc.com Subject: Re: getbootfile() Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Content-Type: text Content-Length: 644 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > < said: > > > FreeBSD I can't see how it would be generally useful. Not having > > copies of the relevent POSIX standards at hand I'm curious as to > > how this information can be obtained portably (if at all). > > POSIX does not make any guarantees that there even is such a thing as > a file that has the kernel in it. POSIX doesn't even guarantee that > there is a `kernel' at all. Particularly true for the MVS (IBM 370) POSIX system; if you want to figure out just what POSIX allows to be missing - try writing a program there! - Dave Rivers -