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| author | Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-03-26 08:05:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-03-26 08:05:39 +0000 |
| commit | 2769244880285aedf543179461711f934b3e29bf (patch) | |
| tree | 21002e0bdc9e3fcae5ecd0818114f7a7c2e0b276 | |
| parent | 8a34ef53ab277e6367cc97fcd59de21fff308ec1 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 | 19 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 index 0d2706e84c218..2e2794fa5b002 100644 --- a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 +++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" @(#)kvm_open.3 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 19, 1994 +.Dd January 29, 2004 .Dt KVM_OPEN 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ as determined from .Pp The .Fa corefile -argument is the kernel memory device file. It can be either /dev/mem +argument is the kernel memory device file. +It can be either +.Pa /dev/mem or a crash dump core generated by .Xr savecore 8 . If @@ -87,7 +89,14 @@ is .Dv NULL , the default indicated by .Dv _PATH_MEM -from <paths.h> is used. +from +.In paths.h +is used. +It can also be set to a special value +.Pa /dev/null +by utilities like +.Xr ps 1 +that do not directly access kernel memory. .Pp The .Fa swapfile @@ -190,4 +199,6 @@ left little choice. .Xr kvm_getprocs 3 , .Xr kvm_nlist 3 , .Xr kvm_read 3 , -.Xr kvm_write 3 +.Xr kvm_write 3 , +.Xr kmem 4 , +.Xr mem 4 |