Re: Info about /dev/kmem required

[Frank Neuber <neuber@convergence.de>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 05:57:39PM -0400, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 07:29:08PM +0530, Milind wrote:
> > I wanted some info about ' /dev/kmem ' file with respect to following
> > 
> > 1)  What this file contains?
> 
> >From Documentation/devices.txt:
> 
>   1 char        Memory devices
>                   1 = /dev/mem          Physical memory access
>                   2 = /dev/kmem         Kernel virtual memory access
> 
> > 2)  Who  writes into this file?
> 
> Normally nobody does, though it can be used to patch up a running
> system (in theory).
> 
> > Reply at the earliest.
> 
> I'm sorry, we're not a helpdesk.

I think You can use /dev/kmem as an corefile for gdb. So it is possible to debug
the linux kernel (of course read only :-)).

 Frank
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