Subject: Re: @booted_kernel magic symlink?
To: Chapman Flack <nblists@anastigmatix.net>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/25/2006 09:14:38
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:11:49PM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> The program that's been irritating me is savecore. It has been
> consistently complaining:
>  /netbsd: kvmopenfiles: /netbsd: No such file or directory
> when the name of the kernel I booted is, for example, test1.

Savecore is a special beast - shouldn't it try to figure the name of the
kernel that had been booted and crashed out of the saved dump?

> Even that is not quite right, because my bootstraps and
> kernels don't live in /.

Yeah, and this is why I think there should not ba a "potential bogus" magic
symlink. File PRs against programs not using the sysctl instead.

Martin