On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Stefan Bethke <s...@lassitu.de> wrote:
> I just got tripped up by this difference in a minor way. Is there a
> particular reason kern_linker uses semicolon as a seperator instead of the
> more common colon?
A comment in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_linker.c says:
* The search path can be manipulated via sysctl. Note that we use the ';'
* character as a separator to be consistent with the bootloader.
And the bootloader uses the ';' as path separator, see loader(8):
bootfile List of semicolon-separated search path for bootable kernels.
The default is ``kernel''.
> Stefan
>
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> Stefan Bethke <s...@lassitu.de> Fon +49 151 14070811
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