On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:24 PM, matthew green wrote: > >>>>>> disklabel.h should export nothing to userland and values userland >>>>>> needs should be obtained via sysctl. >>>>>> >>>>>> I've been asking this question of various developers for a while. >>>>> >>>>> how do i create a disklabel on a file system image as a normal >>>>> user a non-netbsd host with this method? >>>> >>>> But that would be a hosted tool and that's a different case than >>>> a native tool. >>> >>> Where would the hosted tool get that information from? If it's from a >>> MD header file we're back to where we started... >> >> Why? hosted != native. I don't expect a tool to be built on linux to >> know where to get a disklabel from. >> >> I do expect the native on NetBSD to know how to get the disklabel location >> for the current machine it's running on from sysctl and not a header file. > > how does the cross build on linux create an image with a disklabel?
tools/disklabel ?
