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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:44:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020327191733.1932e-100000@fledge.watson.org>
Subject: Re: Some info on the kgmon(8) manual page (regarding current) needed

>Number:         36396
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Re: Some info on the kgmon(8) manual page (regarding current) needed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 27 16:50:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Thu Mar 28 16:19:10 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Wed Oct 26 05:02:42 GMT 2005
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>Description:
 --- Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
 > I've committed a tweak to the man page, but think that the page may
 > actually be wrong in a more general sense: kgmon appears to use
 > getbootfile() so will actually use whatever path the sytem booted with.
 > While by default that will be /boot/kernel/kernel, it may be something
 > else, in which case kgmon tries to DTRT.
 
 Unless changed with the -N flag it provides.
 
 : --- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
 : There might be utilities left that use /kernel, instead of the currently
 : used /boot/kernel/kernel, to find the kernel.  This means that before the
 : manpage is changed, the appropriate source files need to be checked, to
 : make sure that the manpage reflects what really happens in the programs
 : themselves.  We don't want to blindly substitute /boot/kernel/kernel for
 : all the instances of /kernel, and make the manpages inconsistent with the
 : source, right?
 
 According to me, the utility shouldn't be using a hardcoded path to the
 booting kernel, as this would affect kernels which were made by:
 
   makeoptions   KERNEL=foo    #Build kernel "foo" and install "/foo"
 
 What are your suggestions?
 
 In any case, I will take the precautions which Giorgos has put in place,
 and will produce the patches accordingly. :)
 
 Thanks,
 
   -- Hiten Pandya
 
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: keramida 
State-Changed-When: Thu Mar 28 16:17:43 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Followup to email misfiled as a PR. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=36396 
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