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Date:      Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:00:02 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.980424165431.27824D-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199804240716.AAA10334@usr09.primenet.com>

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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:

> That is, "ps" operates on system dumps as well as running systems.
> 
> A procedural interface rather than a data interface won't work on a
> system dump (since there is no kernel to service the method invocation).
> 
> The best implementation I could come up with was to make an abstract
> data interface using a procedural access, and then bind the procedural
> access to the kernel image (-N system).
> 
> The way this would work is that the "ps" program would dlopen() the
> "system" image to access the procedural routines that operated
> against the kmem image (/dev/kmem or "core").

Umm.  Could it be done completely data driven without having to invoke
routines out of the image?


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