In article <20020914153537.A3345@noc.untraceable.net>,
Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote:

No, that makes more sense to me [to look in the booted kernel first].

christos

>currently, with these two libkvm functions:
>
>     kvm_t *
>     kvm_open(const char *execfile, const char *corefile, char *swapfile,
>             int flags, const char *errstr);
>
>     kvm_t *
>     kvm_openfiles(const char *execfile, const char *corefile, char *swapfile,
>             int flags, char *errbuf);
>
>if a null pointer is passed for execfile, the man page states that:
>
>     If this argument is NULL, the currently running system is
>     assumed, which is indicated by _PATH_UNIX in <paths.h>.
>
>would anyone find it particularly egregious if this was modified
>slightly so that a null pointer caused it to default to
>machdep.booted_kernel, and then to fall back to _PATH_UNIX if the
>former was not found?
>
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