, Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/19/2000 21:28:26
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:28:24AM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:35:12AM +0000, Steve Woodford wrote:
>
> > Are there any objections to changing struct emul's e_name field from
> >
> > char e_name[8];
> > to
> > const char *e_name;
> >
> > Cheers, Steve
>
> Doing that would cause you to have to do two kvm reads (one to get emul,
> one to get emul->e_name), but even so, I think it's the right thing to do.
Hm... the trivial workaround would be to use "aout68k" as the name... but
I guess, that overhead only happens once per exec() ?
-is