Re: Info about /dev/kmem required

Erik Mouw
2001-08-21T12:40:09Z

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:21:08PM +0200, Frank Neuber wrote:
> 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 :-)).

No, that's what /proc/kcore is for.

Erik

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