Bug 36396

 --- Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
 > I've committed a tweak to the man page, but think that the page may
 > actually be wrong in a more general sense: kgmon appears to use
 > getbootfile() so will actually use whatever path the sytem booted with.
 > While by default that will be /boot/kernel/kernel, it may be something
 > else, in which case kgmon tries to DTRT.
 
 Unless changed with the -N flag it provides.
 
 : --- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
 : There might be utilities left that use /kernel, instead of the currently
 : used /boot/kernel/kernel, to find the kernel.  This means that before the
 : manpage is changed, the appropriate source files need to be checked, to
 : make sure that the manpage reflects what really happens in the programs
 : themselves.  We don't want to blindly substitute /boot/kernel/kernel for
 : all the instances of /kernel, and make the manpages inconsistent with the
 : source, right?
 
 According to me, the utility shouldn't be using a hardcoded path to the
 booting kernel, as this would affect kernels which were made by:
 
   makeoptions   KERNEL=foo    #Build kernel "foo" and install "/foo"
 
 What are your suggestions?
 
 In any case, I will take the precautions which Giorgos has put in place,
 and will produce the patches accordingly. :)
 
 Thanks,
 
   -- Hiten Pandya
 
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