Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:22:20 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Subject: Re: savecore broken because kern.bootfile is set wrong Message-ID: <3A0EFBFC.C9CD7BBE@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011101800040.31159-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> Something actually was changed at some point perhaps?
> On i386, kernelname is dug out of bootinfo and copied
> (in assembler).
>
> On alpha:
>
> p = getenv("kernelname");
> if (p)
> strncpy(kernelname, p, sizeof(kernelname) - 1);
>
>
> Did the loader used to set kernelname as an environment variable?
Yes, kernelname is set in common/load_elf.c. The i386 code strips it of
any device prefix, though. The alpha code would do well to do the same.
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