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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:53:16 -0400
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Stacey Son <sson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ksyms pseudo driver
Message-ID:  <487CC7EC.5060100@cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <487CA2B4.7070604@freebsd.org>
References:  <4875A5D2.8030902@freebsd.org> <20080711155232.A96384@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <48780661.5050002@freebsd.org> <20080712045837.GD17123@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <487AD49F.6040304@freebsd.org> <20080715093402.GO17123@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <487CA2B4.7070604@freebsd.org>

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Stacey Son wrote:

> The main reason it is written as a pseudo driver is so it can be used 
> with standard command-line utilities.   For example, see the ksyms 

Ah, now everything is perfectly clear to me.  Your method is
very clever indeed.

Just out of curiosity, how much memory will the entire symbol
+ strings table require?  How often do typical consumers (like dtrace)
request them?

Drew



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