On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:00:59PM +0200, Roy Smith wrote: > I can't find out what is the exact differenct between /dev/mem and > /dev/kmem. I've found out that /dev/mem is the physical memory, > while /dev/kmem is linear or virtual memory of the kernel. > But, as i've understood, only processes have virtual memory. > so what does /dev/kmem actually is ? The kernel also uses a virtual mapping and that's what you see through /dev/kmem. Erik -- Erik Mouw J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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