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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Brian Feldman wrote:

> green       2001/08/08 06:51:10 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/conf             kmod.mk
>   Log:
>   In the KLD "load" make target, don't load using the "absolute" path of
>   "./foo.ko".  Use "/full/path/foo.ko" instead so that when the path is
>   reported as being an absolute path to the "shared library", at least
>   it's not really a relative path.

But "./foo.ko" is a relative path.  What doesn't understand this?

kldload(2) adds mostly-undocumented prefixes and suffixes to the path,
so it is hard to tell exactly which file is unloaded, unlike for
properly designed syscalls like open(2).  The actual search in
kern_linker.c:linker_search_path() seems to be:

    o If the path contains a slash, don't try anything else.
    o Otherwise:
        for each prefix in the kern.module_path sysctl tunable string
            for each suffix in fixed set { ".ko", "" }
                try the path with this prefix and suffix
            endfor
        endfor

kldload(8) documents this superfically to the point of being mostly wrong.
It says that "kld filename" converts the non-file name "filename" to the
file name "filename.ko" and loads that.  In particular, it says that
".ko" in the arg is an error.  But actually, ".ko" in the arg is correct
if and only if the arg doesn't contain a slash.

Bruce


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