>> using the value of machdep.booted_kernel from sysctl()
>
>Hmm - isn't this what the "getbootfile()" in libutil is
>made for?

mmm...probably, though that would require any use of libkvm to link
libutil as well.

>I don't like either of these uses of the sysctl - IMHO there
>should be an md layer of translation which is best done at
>script level somewhere in /etc/rc/d/* (after all it is a
>"machdep" sysctl), but _if_ we are going to fix things it
>would be easier to fix at one place only.

yah, it's machdep, that's why i have #ifdef's around the code i wrote,
and a few simple tests to see if it looks like a reasonable thing to
use as a symbol file.

granted, i don't have the call to secure_path() that getbootfile()
has...

i can't offer much of a better solution, though.  :-/

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