re: CVS commit: src

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> >>>> disklabel.h should export nothing to userland and values userland
> >>>> needs should be obtained via sysctl.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I've been asking this question of various developers for a while.
> >>> 
> >>> how do i create a disklabel on a file system image as a normal
> >>> user a non-netbsd host with this method?
> >> 
> >> But that would be a hosted tool and that's a different case than 
> >> a native tool.  
> > 
> > Where would the hosted tool get that information from?  If it's from a
> > MD header file we're back to where we started...
> 
> Why?  hosted != native.  I don't expect a tool to be built on linux to
> know where to get a disklabel from.
> 
> I do expect the native on NetBSD to know how to get the disklabel location
> for the current machine it's running on from sysctl and not a header file.

how does the cross build on linux create an image with a disklabel?


.mrg.