SUMMARY: g(s)etsysinfo ?

From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 12/17/03

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    Not sure how to summarize this since I may have been a bit vague in
    my question. What I was hoping to learn was how consvar worked so
    that I might try to write the same thing for VMS. But as several
    pointed out it is rather platform specific, in some ways. However,
    what makes it plausible is that a lot remains constant in SRM.

    These system routines do appear to be the mechanism to access/modify
    SRM, as may be indicated by running strings on the executable as suggested
    by Alan Rollow.

    Looking in /usr/sys/include/arch/alpha/prom.h there is a further indication
    of SRM and system specific variable (thanks to Alan Davis)

    Thanks also to To Blinn.

    >Looking at consvar, it appears that it uses these system calls.
    >
    >I was looking for the includes files were the actions were defined
    >such as, auto_action, bootdef_dev, and so on, but couldn't find them.
    >
    >Are they perhaps hard coded? 

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