Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:26:55 +0200 | From | almesber@lrc ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz |
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Alan Cox wrote: > Use that argument 50 times and your kernel has grown 100K. Unfortunately > everyone keeps using the argument and forgetting the cumulative effect
:-) The thing is that this information is something you access when something is already going wrong. So avoiding a few possible failure conditions (e.g. determining the image name either requires a priori knowledge or depends on the boot loader) seems rather desirable to me.
Or can we have a standard, reasonably reliable way for determining the path name of the currently running image ? (E.g. for LILO, the command is lilo -I `sed '/.*BOOT_IMAGE=\([^ ]*\).*/s//\1/' </proc/cmdline` But what about GRUB, LOADLIN, SILO, MILO, ... ?)
- Werner
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