From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 31 1:37:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52F5237B42C for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 01:37:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 24372 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Dec 2001 09:33:45 -0000 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:33:44 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Mike Barcroft Cc: Mike Smith , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loadable aio Message-ID: <20011231113343.A17990@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Barcroft , Mike Smith , hackers@freebsd.org References: <20011230215630.B45114@espresso.q9media.com> <200112310508.fBV58MI03596@mass.dis.org> <20011231034807.D45114@espresso.q9media.com> <20011231105940.B3512@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011231105940.B3512@straylight.oblivion.bg>; from roam@ringlet.net on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:59:40AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message