current-users: Re: kernel symbol tables (was Re: vmstat, iostat etc no longer work?)

Subject: Re: kernel symbol tables (was Re: vmstat, iostat etc no longer work?)
To: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu, ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@kurt.tools.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/14/1996 15:00:46

> I'm for the more robust approach.  If you're really paranoid about
> that lost memory in the corner cases, there can be both a kernel
> config option and a boot loader option to disable symbol loading.

In case the pageable symbol table approach is accepted, I'd even support
the rm-ing of the symbol file from the kern filesystem.
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