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Date:      Wed, 5 Apr 1995 12:26:16 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        mbarkah@slate.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Ade Barkah)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Default kernel name
Message-ID:  <9504051626.AA25938@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9504050256.AA27059@slate.Mines.Colorado.EDU>
References:  <9504050256.AA27059@slate.Mines.Colorado.EDU>

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<<On Tue, 4 Apr 1995 20:56:23 -0600 (MDT), mbarkah@slate.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Ade Barkah) said:

> Is the default kernel in FreeBSD 2.0 always called /kernel ?
> That is, if I'm writing a program which needs a kernel name
> list, can I default it to /kernel ?

No.  You can default it to whatever getbootfile() tells you, and
should include a `-N' flag to override that value.

-GAWollman

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