Re: where went /dev/kmem?

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On 03:20 Sat 29 Mar     , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   following up on a short article i just read, where is /dev/kmem
> these days?  was it actually deleted?  back in 2005, jon corbet was
> certainly hinting at this:
> 
>   http://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
> 
> and i don't see it today on my system, and i don't see a kernel config
> option for it either, but i also don't see an explicit removal of that
> feature in "git log" and log entries as recent as january of last year
> still talk about it.

I do not know if it is still in the kernel. But the missing device says
nothing. You can create it with "mknod /dev/kmem c 1 2". Also see the manpage
of mknod and the "devices.txt" file in the kernel Documentation/.
	-Michi
-- 
programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks
see http://michaelblizek.homelinux.net


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