"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> [...] and on those
>architectures where there is no kernel name sysctl returns something
>"special" and rc just knows to use /netbsd by default?

... uh, how about the empty string?

What should the sysctl name return for kernel names that are known but
aren't (necssarily) in the fileystem namespace, like tftp-booted
kernels?