NAME

getbootfile - get the name of the booted kernel file

LIBRARY

System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

SYNOPSIS



const char * getbootfile(void)

DESCRIPTION

getbootfile() returns a static pointer to the full path name of the file from which the current kernel was loaded. If it can not be determined, or the file is not ``secure'' (see secure_path(3)), _PATH_UNIX from <paths.h> is returned instead.

SEE ALSO

secure_path(3), sysctl(3)

HISTORY

The getbootfile function call appeared in FreeBSD2.0 and NetBSD1.6.