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From: ram@xor.epi.wisc.edu (Ram Bhamidipaty)
Subject: Re: problem with build netbsd-09 kernel
In-Reply-To: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 02 Sep 1993 19:53:16 GMT
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>>>>> "mycroft" == Charles Hannum <mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> writes:

	mycroft> Unfortunately, utilities which use kvm.c
	mycroft> (i.e. swapinfo, ps, w, etc.)  currently have no way
	mycroft> of finding the appropriate info except by poking at
	mycroft> the symbol table of the kernel.  However, the symbol
	mycroft> table is not loaded when booting (and probably
	mycroft> shouldn't be).  Thus, the path to the kernel is
	mycroft> hard-coded.

	mycroft> Try `swapinfo -N /netbsd_test' and `ps -N
	mycroft> /netbsd_test'.  (I see the man page for swapinfo
	mycroft> needs updating.)

Wow it works!! Great! Thank you !!!! I'm so happy, I think I might even
try build xfree for netbsd-09 :-).

-Ram
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