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Subject: Re: Why does kern.module_path use ";" and not ":"?
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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
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> --
> Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> =A0 Fon +49 151 14070811

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