Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:26:00 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: nn@broadcom.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/14988: kldload loads <file> from /modules even if <file> exists locally Message-ID: <19991120132600.0C6C11CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:34:39 PST." <19991119013439.CC5AF15018@hub.freebsd.org>
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nn@broadcom.com wrote: > >Number: 14988 > >Category: kern > >Synopsis: kldload loads <file> from /modules even if <file> exists loc [..] > >Description: > Very non-intuitively, "kldload file.ko" ignores the file "file.ko" > if it exists in the current directly and instead loads > file.ko from /modules if it exists there. This is actually as designed... # sysctl kern.module_path kern.module_path: /;/boot/;/modules/ If you want it to load from . you can set it to: ./;/;/boot/;/modules/ and that will work. It's done that way for the same reason we don't have "." in the beginning of $PATH. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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