From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 10 18:32:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-90-77.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.90.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F70A37B479 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:32:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAB2bw909143; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:37:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011110237.eAB2bw909143@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: savecore broken because kern.bootfile is set wrong In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:14:12 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:37:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? It should still do it. (The forth code handles this) My only Alpha is running -stable, and $kernelname is set correctly there (see the output of 'kenv'). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message