>From: Jacques Hugo <jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za>
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:11:25 -0800 (PST)
>
>> 3) 'rm /var/db/kvm*.db && kvm_mkdb /netbsd'

>Thanks, no 3 worked.  Linux uses its /proc/net/* entries to read and
>display its sockets.  Looks like NetBSD doesn't.  Does NetBSD always
>create a database for every `netstat` command, or only once off?
>Just a question.

kvm_mkdb(8) creates a database to be used by the kvm(3) routines; it
is usually run by /etc/rc.  It only rebuilds the database when it
detects that the kernel you feed it differs from the one that was used
to build the current database.

NetBSD uses kvm(3) instead of /proc because code that uses kvm can be
used to debug kernel core dumps.
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