Subject: Re: /dev/ksyms
To: Alan Barrett <apb@iafrica.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/25/1999 07:54:15
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Alan Barrett wrote:

: > - /dev/ksyms, to be able to access an up-to-date symbol table. (as a side
: >   effect ps stopped to care about from which kernel the system was loaded :-)
: 
: Is /dev/ksyms the best place for this?  Why not /kern/ksyns?

Probably so that you can get at ksyms without having to have kernfs.  :)

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