Re: Extraversion in System.map?

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 04:41:38 EST


In article <1018246521.1534.145.camel@phantasy>,
Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
>Do what everyone else does and name your System.map appropriately, i.e.
>System.map-2.5.8-pre2 and then on boot symlink System.map to
>System.map-`uname -r`. Most (all?) distributions do this for you
>already.

Not even that is needed. Most if not all utilities that need a
system.map file check for System.map-`uname -r` _first_ and only
if that is not found fall back to plain System.map. So the symlink
is superfluous.

Mike.

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