On 20-Mar-2002 Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2002-03-20, John Baldwin écrivait : > >> Looks mostly ok to me. Not entirely sure about the autoboot changes >> as it looks weird to load(kname) right before you change what kname >> is. I think the logic must somehow be wrong there. > > But this is what is currently in the code (as I mentioned in the PR, > 36015 is strictly a code clarification, with no functional change). > The load() function in boot2 ends with an exec() of the loaded binary. > It returns only if it has failed. The purpose of replacing kname > after load() has returned is to try to load /boot/kernel if we have > failed to load /boot/loader.
I was just saying it looked weird in the old code as well. Your explanation helps explain why though. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
