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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Writing portable code that reads /dev/kmem
Message-ID: <12098:May2521:41:2791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 21:41:27 GMT
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In article <76560@brunix.UUCP> cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
> >I've heard rumors that there exists a kmem-access library for BSD4.3.
> It should never have had to exist in the first place; but there is.  -lkvm
> will link with it.

-lkvm is a Sun-ism. You can get almost all the same functions out of
the much more portable kmem and getuser libraries inside my kstuff
package.

> But bear in
> mind that when we say "symbol," we're talking about internal kernel
> variables.  This stuff is by definition unportable.

The main point of kstuff is to provide higher-level, portable
interfaces to most of the useful kernel symbols.

---Dan