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From: paul@FLEETWOOD.CC.UMICH.EDU ('da Kingfish)
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Subject: /dev/kmem ...
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 15:35:33 EDT
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Renu Raman asks:

	"I am no UNIX guru and so would like to know what's wrong in
	using /dev/kmem"

I think we (those of us who don't like using /dev/kmem even if we have
one on the system) say something like "procedural interfaces are nicer
than having to know about data structures."

In a dream, I received the revelation that people who use /dev/kmem will
be reincarnated as rocks.

--paul