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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: need help reading data from /dev/kmem
Keywords: nlist()  /dev/kmem
Message-ID: <1940@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Jan 89 23:08:56 GMT
References: <7107@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <7107@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> khearn@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Keith Hearn) writes:
>I am interested in possibly adding system activity reporting to the MINIX
>  kernel 
>  In UNIX i would use nlist() to get the addresses of the variables 
>  I want, then do an open(), an lseek(), and a read(). Simple. 

MINIX does not have nlist.  The compiler can be requested to produce a
symbol table on a file, however, and programs can use this symbol table
to locate things inside /dev/kmem.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)