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Authored by allanjude on Jul 11 2020, 7:52 PM.

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rS363139: Loader: explain the syntax of currdev

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The loader(8) man page doesn't explain how you correctly format currdev

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stand/man/loader.8
486 ↗	(On Diff #74334)	huh, what's with the `:` at the end? I don't remember ever writing it

kevans accepted this revision.Jul 12 2020, 1:13 PM

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486 ↗	(On Diff #74334)	I was under the impression it's to remove ambiguity, because we may literally glue currdev and a path together for,e.g., open(). Omitting it could cause hilarityto ensue, I believe.

allanjude added inline comments.Jul 13 2020, 2:07 AM

stand/man/loader.8
486 ↗	(On Diff #74334)	Yeah, because the path ends up being like: zfs:dataset:/boot/kernel/kernel etc The : at the end is very required. For ZFS, 'set currdev=zfs:dataset' will return an error, saying it is invalid without the trailing :

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