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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
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diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm_nlist.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm_nlist.3
index c49bd3a..c1dd8b7 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm_nlist.3
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm_nlist.3
@@ -60,12 +60,14 @@ an entry whose n_name field is
(see
.Xr nlist 3 ) .
Each symbol is looked up using the n_name field, and if found, the
-corresponding n_type and n_value fields are filled in. These fields are set
+corresponding n_type and n_value fields are filled in.
+These fields are set
to 0 if the symbol is not found.
.Pp
The
.Xr kldsym 2
-system call is used to locate the symbol. This is a less than perfect
+system call is used to locate the symbol.
+This is a less than perfect
emulation of the nlist values but has the advantage of being aware of kernel
modules and is reasonably fast.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
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