On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:29:25PM -0400, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
> Moved to tech-kern because my question has nothing to do with
> source commits in progress.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 08:14:40PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > Of course, if you can read /dev/mem you can find the current state.
> 
> Say, why do we need /dev/kmem and /dev/mem these days? Are they
> still needed for ps and friends? X11 device drivers?

It's very useful addition to gdb, say 'target kcore /dev/mem'...

	Andrey