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From: pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] vmstat: version for ISA architecture out?
Keywords: memory, vmstat
Message-ID: <48687@shamash.cdc.com>
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:30:56 GMT
References: <1bm3ntINNbe4@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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In article <1bm3ntINNbe4@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>, kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kostis Dryllerakis) writes:
|>                                  The copy available from the BSD reno has to be modified
|> and I am not the expert to do so. Not much has to be done though; if anybody has done so
|> I would be obliged for a copy of the modified source!

I too tried to get the reno version of vmstat to work on 386BSD, but unfortuately I couldn't
figure out how to make it work.  The place the I couldn't figure out is with names.c.  It
requires several kernel symbols names that I just couldn't find in 386BSD.  The offending
symbols were _hp_dinit for hp300, _mbdinit and _ubdinit for vax, etc.

I looked through /sys on a SUN and found the files with similar names in them, but I couldn't
find similar definitions in 386BSD.

My guess is that these symbols are part of the ATT (boo hiss) code that was replaced during
the Great Code Purge(tm).

Anyone have suggestions?
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