Water NB wrote:
> I want to know:
> Is the file /netbsd necessary in an embedded system?
>
> In my system (alchemy au1550), I willn't run netstat command with /netbsd.
> Why this command need access /netbsd.
> Any other commands need it too?
>
> thanks.
>   

netstat and vmstat need it because they need to read the symbol table to
figure out where bits in kmem are.

Apart from a few "system status commands", I don't think you need it.

It would be really, really cool if instead these commands could use some
kernfs file.  That would be a nice SoC project.

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