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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 1995 11:53:34 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        davidg@root.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c 
Message-ID:  <9511151653.AA26197@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199511151354.FAA00756@corbin.Root.COM>
References:  <199511151341.AAA05911@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199511151354.FAA00756@corbin.Root.COM>

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<<On Wed, 15 Nov 1995 05:54:22 -0800, David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> said:

>    The sysctl crap in the Makefile is bogus and should be removed. My kernel
> is often not called "/kernel" and pretending that it was is wrong. The bootfile
> name should be read-only and the Makefile should not be messing with it.

No, the bootfile name should not be read-only; I knew what I was doing
when I wrote that code.  Yes, the Makefile should not be messing with
it.

The reason for making the bootfile name not be read-only is to allow
LKMs to leave their symbol-files in some convenient place and set
kern.bootfile to point there, so that other programs like `modload'
and `netstat' are able to find it.

-GAWollman

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