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Re: misc/38425 (savecore confused if getbootfile(3) fails)



On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 06:50:17AM -0700, Tom Spindler wrote:
> I don't know about any of you, but savecore completely fails to work
> for me after 1.78 savecore.c; in particular, failing to set the
> booted kernel causes check_space to die a painful death:

I'll poke at it some more.  This works in our local tree -- maybe I
missed a change when integrating it back into NetBSD.

It is absolutely, positively *not* the right solution to cause any
of these utilities to try to know the kernel name.  Any operation
they have any business doing can be done via /dev/ksyms -- the
question is where I missed one or more references to the kernel name
that were exposed beyond libkvm, which correctly defaults to use
/dev/ksyms if some other kernel name is not rammed down its throat.

Thor


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