All operation on live kernels uses sysctl interface, there is no reason to

access the swap area. Change kvm_open() to no longer require a swap area,
and to not consider failure to open() it as fatal. Post-mortem analysis
would need an image of the swap area at the time of the crash, anyway.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
index ad8b8101908..d5c27805b07 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: kvm_open.3,v 1.12 2007/05/31 19:19:35 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: kvm_open.3,v 1.13 2009/01/21 22:18:00 miod Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: kvm_open.3,v 1.2 1996/03/18 22:33:52 thorpej Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)kvm_open.3	8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2009 $
 .Dt KVM_OPEN 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -96,10 +96,7 @@ is used.
 should indicate the swap device.
 If
 .Dv NULL ,
-.Dv _PATH_DRUM
-from
-.Aq Pa paths.h
-is used.
+no swap device will be used.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fa flags