On 05/12/17 16:20, Rob Landley wrote:
> When I feed a second -append to qemu-system-i386 they don't get
> concatenated, the second replaces the first. Why is it called "append" then?
This behavior dates back to commit a20dd508aa38 ("simplified invocation
- added automatic IDE disk geometry guessing to reuse old disk images
directly", 2003-09-30), which is when "-append" was added.
In said commit, "kernel_cmdline" was *appended* to "params->commandline"
with pstrcat(). The rest is history.
TL;DR: "just because" :)
Thanks
Laszlo
