On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, John F. Woods wrote:

> > Why not have a
> > new sysctl variable, kern.filename or whatever, that contains the
> > filename that the kernel was loaded from?
> 
> And if you got your kernel via tftp, this would contain ... ?

Nothing. The system would follow the existing symlink /var/run/kernel
(pointing to /netbsd in the default installation) and you'd be right
where you were before we thought of this idea.

Which ports load a kernel via tftp, BTW?

cjs

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