Subject: Re: suggested alteration to kvm_open() and kvm_openfiles()
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/14/2002 23:59:48
Yes, sounds fine. Might want to prepend '/' to machdep.booted kernel
to avoid false matches, tho.
Jaromir
Andrew Brown wrote:
> currently, with these two libkvm functions:
>
> kvm_t *
> kvm_open(const char *execfile, const char *corefile, char *swapfile,
> int flags, const char *errstr);
>
> kvm_t *
> kvm_openfiles(const char *execfile, const char *corefile, char *swapfile,
> int flags, char *errbuf);
>
> if a null pointer is passed for execfile, the man page states that:
>
> If this argument is NULL, the currently running system is
> assumed, which is indicated by _PATH_UNIX in <paths.h>.
>
> would anyone find it particularly egregious if this was modified
> slightly so that a null pointer caused it to default to
> machdep.booted_kernel, and then to fall back to _PATH_UNIX if the
> former was not found?
>
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