Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:22:20 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm question Message-ID: <199901231922.LAA18494@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199901231655.IAA00613@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 23, 99 08:55:53 am"
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Mike Smith writes: > > My question is, should kvm_read() and friends be "enhanced" with > > this ability to find a symbol by searching through the loaded > > KLD modules? Seems a bit hackish, but then again so is the whole > > kvm() idea. > > No; you should be using sysctl to get at the information. Yes in *one particular application* using sysctl would be better.. but that's not the question. The question is, should this bug in libkvm be fixed? Until and unless someone is willing to convert every program that uses libkvm to use sysctl or procfs or whatever, I think this is a fair question. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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