Re: ON/OFF-Topic: What's about my pentium???

Hans Lermen (lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de)
Sat, 30 Nov 1996 20:37:59 +0100 (MET)


On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, root wrote:

> There is no way to access kcore -- it hangs the machine EVER (sniff!)
> (But -- what is it for, if not for read/write...?)

Its for debugging, /proc/kcore is the loaded kernel in core file format.
Try:

# gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore

Hans
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