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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Polstra wrote:

> On 12-Jul-2004 Doug Rabson wrote:
> > Hmm. Maybe the simplest thing would be to print the link errors using 
> > uprintf() instead of printf().
> 
> That's a good idea.  It would be a lot better than what we have now. 

If possible, we should printf() as well, since linker errors may not
happen in the context of a supervising user.  I.e., during the boot
process, etc.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research