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authorrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2008-04-19 12:39:15 +0000
committerrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2008-04-19 12:39:15 +0000
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It is a bug that procstat(8) works only on live kernels and not crashdumps;
document in case anyone wants to work on fixing this. MFC after: 3 days
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diff --git a/usr.bin/procstat/procstat.1 b/usr.bin/procstat/procstat.1
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+++ b/usr.bin/procstat/procstat.1
@@ -112,3 +112,7 @@ It therefore does not work for file systems
that do not use the name cache, such as
.Xr devfs 4 ,
or if the name is not present in the cache due to removal.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+currently supports extracting data only from a live kernel, and not from
+kernel crash dumps.
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