Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:33:44 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@freebsd.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loadable aio Message-ID: <20011231113343.A17990@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20011231105940.B3512@straylight.oblivion.bg>; from roam@ringlet.net on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:59:40AM %2B0200 References: <20011230215630.B45114@espresso.q9media.com> <200112310508.fBV58MI03596@mass.dis.org> <20011231034807.D45114@espresso.q9media.com> <20011231105940.B3512@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:59:40AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
>
> Okay, so it's not documented in the manual, but one look at the source
> should suffice :)
>
> As Mike said, there is a search path. However, the current directory
> is tried first. If a file by that name is not found in the current
> directory, the search path is, well, searched ;) The search path
> is available in the kern.module_path sysctl or in the output of
> 'kldconfig -r'.
>
> This is similar to what shells have been doing for decades, with
> the added feature of an implicit '.' at the start of the search path.
*oof*
Don't know what I was thinking.
There is NO implicit '.'. There is NO searching the current
directory first. Only the kern.modules_path search path is used.
This explains why your last case - cd("/tmp"); kldload("procfs"); -
does not work.
If you specify the full path, though, that is tried first before
the search path.
G'luck,
Peter
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