Info about /dev/kmem required

Milind
2001-08-17T14:02:47Z

Hi all

I wanted some info about ' /dev/kmem ' file with respect to following

1) What this file contains?

2) Who writes into this file?

All I have found is that 'dmesg' will read from this file and display
system information.

Reply at the earliest.

Thanks
Milind