(GRRR!  Has anyone considered porting (or
   reimplementing) CMU's table() system call to end that foolishness?) 

There's an alternate approach which is probably less drastic, which is
for the boot program to pass the pathname of the kernel to the kernel
when it starts; the kernel can pass this to init, and init can pass it
to /etc/rc, which can use it for the kvm_mkdb stuff...

				- Bill


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