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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-02-23 03:06:12 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-02-23 03:06:12 +0000
commitb29bba6882f4b07f09fc1f9e90ae22fc71ba9290 (patch)
tree46eeb828dc367333f264ab23082a9b923e3de015 /share/man
parent72cc0a1b309a6e1afffa1f79e0a53afdfd22bf54 (diff)
remove pasto and change ksyms to /dev/ksyms
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/ksyms.421
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ksyms.4 b/share/man/man4/ksyms.4
index b60deeb77f2..71e442a3bef 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ksyms.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ksyms.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ksyms.4,v 1.1 1998/08/25 02:50:56 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ksyms.4,v 1.2 1999/02/23 03:06:11 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@
.Sy pseudo-device Nm ksyms 1
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm ksyms
+.Nm /dev/ksyms
device masquerades as an
.Em a.out
executable with the symbols from the running kernel as its
symbol segment. Use of
-.Nm
+.Nm /dev/ksyms
requires that the boot loader preserve the kernel symbols and place
them at the end of the kernel's address space. Any port that is capable
of using the
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ debugger does this, even if
is not configured into the kernel.
.Pp
The
-.Nm
+.Nm /dev/ksyms
device is used to look up the symbol table name list from the running
kernel. Because it represents the running kernel it is guaranteed
to always be up to date even if the kernel file has been changed (or
@@ -63,14 +63,17 @@ routines (note that
and
.Xr kvm_openfiles 3
will try
-.Nm
+.Nm /dev/ksyms
automatically if the first parameter to them is the
.Dv NULL
pointer).
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
+.It Pa /dev/ksyms
+.El
.Sh ERRORS
-device will
An open of
-.Nm
+.Nm /dev/ksyms
will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EPERM
@@ -85,13 +88,13 @@ they were removed with
.Xr nlist 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
-.Nm
+.Nm /dev/ksyms
device appeared in
.Ox 2.4 .
.Sh BUGS
It is not possible to
.Xr mmap 2
-.Nm
+.Nm /dev/ksyms
because the boot loader does not load the symbol table onto a page
boundary (so it is not page aligned). If all the boot loaders were
fixed,