On Sunday 02 March 2003 17:12, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Jun Su wrote: > > I am adding some new feature to the kgdb. I am not sure why the libkvm > > doesn't implement reading from memory space when checking core dump. Who > > can give some comments on this? If it is possible, I will try to > > implement it. > > It was lost when libkvm was converted to use procfs (reading from > /proc/<pid>/mem instead of from kmem). procfs is often considered > harmful for even more reasons than this, but replacing it by sysctls > tends to break support for dead kernels even more since sysctl() is > completely unlike read(). > > Bruce
We can use the same method which libkvm read kernel memory space when in core dump to implemt the same thing for user memory space. Currently, I am cosidering the feature for debug core dump or debug remote machine more than debug /dev/mem. I think it is possible. Am I right? Jun To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
