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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: mbarkah@slate.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Ade Barkah)
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Subject: Default kernel name
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<<On Tue, 4 Apr 1995 20:56:23 -0600 (MDT), mbarkah@slate.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Ade Barkah) said:

> Is the default kernel in FreeBSD 2.0 always called /kernel ?
> That is, if I'm writing a program which needs a kernel name
> list, can I default it to /kernel ?

No.  You can default it to whatever getbootfile() tells you, and
should include a `-N' flag to override that value.

-GAWollman

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