Re: /netbsd is necessary?
"Garrett D'Amore" <[email protected]>
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Water NB wrote: > I want to know: > Is the file /netbsd necessary in an embedded system? > > In my system (alchemy au1550), I willn't run netstat command with /netbsd. > Why this command need access /netbsd. > Any other commands need it too? > > thanks. > netstat and vmstat need it because they need to read the symbol table to figure out where bits in kmem are. Apart from a few "system status commands", I don't think you need it. It would be really, really cool if instead these commands could use some kernfs file. That would be a nice SoC project. -- Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division, General Dynamics C4 Systems http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/ Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191