> Ulrich,
>
> Would you please ask Linus and friends to implement the getbootfile()
> call?
Surely I would, BUT: The Linux kernel is compressed on disk. Thus the
usual functions like nlist() WILL NOT work. Do you still wnat to have
a getbootfile() call?
>
> Under FreeBSD, for example, getbootfile() calls sysctl() in order to get
> the name of the booted kernel.
>
> Thanks...
>
> H
Well, I'll CC: your message to the kernel hackers. Maybe someone has
a good idea...
Ulrich
P.S. Dear Hackers, Harlan Stenn wants to read some kernel variables
portably from the Linux kernel, but does not know how to do that...