Subject: Re: /kern/kernel
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 09/10/1998 13:52:21
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:21:41 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > Perhaps kernfs could create a proper symlink (assuming, of course, that the
 > kernel lives in /)?  Does the kernel know by what name it was loaded?

That's machine-dependent.  The Alpha port does know, actually, and
puts that information in machdep.booted_kernel (sans the /).

I have been wanting to make that sysctl MI and make libkvm use it.

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