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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-03-26 08:03:53 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-03-26 08:03:53 +0000
commitb8af1b3b307d3f62346da7a93095f17ce363e33e (patch)
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parent96600648f57ee206d10cbe6b3d0f8905447cd64e (diff)
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Document that libkvm also uses /dev/kmem, to access KVM.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libkvm')
-rw-r--r--lib/libkvm/kvm.310
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm.3
index c7a46d2..e06fd2a 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm.3
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm.3
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\" @(#)kvm.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd January 29, 2004
.Dt KVM 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ The
library provides a uniform interface for accessing kernel virtual memory
images, including live systems and crash dumps.
Access to live systems is via
-.Pa /dev/mem
+.Xr mem 4
+and
+.Xr kmem 4
while crash dumps can be examined via the core file generated by
.Xr savecore 8 .
The interface behaves identically in both cases.
@@ -110,4 +112,6 @@ given descriptor.
.Xr kvm_open 3 ,
.Xr kvm_openfiles 3 ,
.Xr kvm_read 3 ,
-.Xr kvm_write 3
+.Xr kvm_write 3 ,
+.Xr kmem 4 ,
+.Xr mem 4
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