kldload won't load
Robert Watson
rwatson at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 12 14:01:10 PDT 2004
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Polstra wrote:
> > Well, the problem here is that the errno error-reporting mechanism can
> > report but not describe errors. We could add a new EKLDLINKER to point at
> > a linker error (or the like), or a whole set of new errnos, but the
> > mechanism even then couldn't report which symbols are missing, etc. One
> > or more linker-specific error values would probably be a useful start.
>
> I fully understand the implementation difficulties, but we have to be
> careful to observe the distinction between correct behavior and
> easy-to-implement behavior. The kldload(2) API doesn't support correct
> behavior, so that's where the focus needs to be -- not on making users
> feel stupid for failing to look in the dmesg output.
I don't disagree, but you have to admit that the kitten dying thing is a
interesting (if unusual) side effect.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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