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

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/38425; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>
To: Tom Spindler <dogcow%babymeat.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, Thor Lancelot Simon 
<tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>,
        misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Simon Burge 
<simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: misc/38425 (savecore confused if getbootfile(3) fails)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:17:55 -0400

 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