Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:06:54 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does kern.module_path use ";" and not ":"? Message-ID: <CADGWnjXrM4SVbveUM64cHghp1P0tGESgY8NAdqM791N8sTbuBg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D1268B79-469B-4A1E-8E1C-69C30979AFCA@lassitu.de> References: <D1268B79-469B-4A1E-8E1C-69C30979AFCA@lassitu.de>
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On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> wrote:
> I just got tripped up by this difference in a minor way. =A0Is there a pa=
rticular reason kern_linker uses semicolon as a seperator instead of the mo=
re common colon?
A comment in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_linker.c says:
* The search path can be manipulated via sysctl. Note that we use the ';'
* character as a separator to be consistent with the bootloader.
And the bootloader uses the ';' as path separator, see loader(8):
bootfile List of semicolon-separated search path for bootable kernels.
The default is ``kernel''.
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> =A0 Fon +49 151 14070811
Regards,
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