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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD striping the debug info from the kernel Date: 22 Jun 1996 11:56:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4qgn10$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4psneo$p9h@hermes.athenet.net> <4q4lmo$7a@rabbit.augusta.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) wrote: > > strip -x kernel > > make install > > I have heared that stripping the kernel is no god idea. I dont know why, > but I dont do it ... Only stripping _all_ symbols (which he didn't intend to do) is a bad idea, since nlist(3) will fail then. Several utilities like ps(1) still rely on nlist. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)