Re: /sys is a symlink to an empty directory

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 11:57:16PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Jul 04 17:08:53, anonloli@autistici.org wrote:
> > Hello mailing list
> > Probably a stupid question, but I reinstalled OpenBSD like 10 times this week,
> > and every time I went to compile the kernel like it says in the documentation,
> > I could always cd into /sys/dev..., but this install it seems like /sys points
> > to "usr/src/sys" (it's "usr", not "/usr").
>
> And in the previous installs it was different? No.
>
> > All I did on this install was download tar.gz files and extract them in /usr,
> > including the /usr/sys folder,
>
> What "/usr/sys folder"?
>
> > which was supposed to be in /sys pre-installed
> > with the system, what's happening?
>
> /sys is a symlink to "usr/src/sys", as you have discovered.
> Untar sys.tar.gz into /sys, or /usr/src/sys, same thing.
>
> > I'm currently following documentation and doing everything in /usr/sys
> > (extracted AND VERIFIED from tar.gz) as if it were /sys
> > I'm sorry if this is a stupid question
>
> What question?
>

I did discover that, but by myself, I'm only now reading this email.. either
the email provider that I use is buggy/late with emails, or my mutt is acting
up.......

Probably by question I meant the subject title (where's /sys?)