[Freemint-list] [PATCH] Put bootlog file into sysdir/machdir

[Miro Kropáček]

Hi,

holidays have brought me to an idea to reorganise some stuff on my Falcon's
disk, i.e. have separate partitions for every system -- TOS, MagiC,
FreeMiNT, Geneva, ... and boot into each of them with a single keystroke
(courtesy of HD Driver and lately also EmuTOS), just for fun.

However, you can imagine my surprise when I realised that XaAES (from
EasyMiNT 1.90) crashes if I don't boot it from C:. Later I realised that it
had been fixed in trunk and later after that I realised it had been
modified to <sysdrv>/mint/boot.log path in Helmut's branch.

I don't like either of the solutions, it smells hacky to me. So here's a
patch for putting boot.log where it belongs -- into $SYSDIR and, if
present, into mchdir so you can have different logs for each machine, if
you happen to share the same image / folder across more hardware.

I also took the liberty to fix some awful design decisions regarding the
bootlog handling (like passing memory pointer between processes). To be
honest, I can't quite understand why we need a Ssystem() call just to
determine the path of bootlog file (esp. if there's /kern/bootlog) but
whatever, I fixed it.

Comments welcome.


-- 
MiKRO / Mystic Bytes
http://mikro.atari.org
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