Subject: Re: /kern/kernel
To: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/10/1998 10:21:41
On 10 Sep 1998 rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu wrote:
: > This - or something like it - has been discussed before. The biggest
: > problem with it is that what most programs want from /netbsd is the
: > symbol table, and that isn't always loaded into core. (Indeed, unless
: Programs that want the symbol table get it by running namelist not
: looking in core. The problem they have is not knowing the name of the
: kernel to look things up in.
Perhaps kernfs could create a proper symlink (assuming, of course, that the
kernel lives in /)? Does the kernel know by what name it was loaded?
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