Well, things are more broken than I thought.
The -current loader for alpha is passing "kernel"
in the bootinfo structure- not the full pathname.
Loader bug.
What's amusing is that kenv does see a full pathname.
So, now why did the lines below fail to see the pathname?
Hmmm.. ponders....
-matt
> > Something actually was changed at some point perhaps?
> > On i386, kernelname is dug out of bootinfo and copied
> > (in assembler).
> >
> > On alpha:
> >
> > p = getenv("kernelname");
> > if (p)
> > strncpy(kernelname, p, sizeof(kernelname) - 1);
> >
> >
> > Did the loader used to set kernelname as an environment variable?
>
> It should still do it. (The forth code handles this) My only Alpha is
> running -stable, and $kernelname is set correctly there (see the output
> of 'kenv').
>
>
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