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From: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE off-by-one problem
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:18:40AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> to get the config file from the kernel, one can use config -k, which
> executes elfdump to get the offset and size. The size is actually 1(one)
> byte too big, and so the output of config -k contains a NULL/0/^@ as
> the last byte. I think the problem is in the elf file.

Why do you think that the problem lies in the ELF file?

Can you confirm that following sysctls:

	kern.geom.confxml
	kern.geom.conftxt

don't suffer from the same problem?

> btw, it would realy be nice if the sys/conf/NOTES file is updated.

I can change NOTES soon. I have huge email lag.

Thanks,

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Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek@FreeBSD.org
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/dunstan/