On Wed, 8 Jan 97 10:32:16 PST 
 mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob) wrote:

 > w && ps, et. al., are build statically. Therefore kvm_mkdb
 > won't help. You have to rebuild these utilities.

err, well, libkvm uses the db instead of the namelist to speed finding
a symbol's value.  These programs still use it, because they're linked
with libkvm.

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