Re: savecore broken because kern.bootfile is set wrong

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> Something actually was changed at some point perhaps?
> On i386, kernelname is dug out of bootinfo and copied
> (in assembler).
> 
> On alpha:
> 
>         p = getenv("kernelname");
>         if (p)
>                 strncpy(kernelname, p, sizeof(kernelname) - 1);
> 
> 
> Did the loader used to set kernelname as an environment variable?

Yes, kernelname is set in common/load_elf.c. The i386 code strips it of
any device prefix, though. The alpha code would do well to do the same.

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