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43 .Nd read or write kernel virtual memory
50 .Fn kvm_read "kvm_t *kd" "unsigned long addr" "void *buf" "size_t nbytes"
52 .Fn kvm_readstr "kvm_t *kd" "unsigned long addr" "char *buf" "size_t *len"
54 .Fn kvm_write "kvm_t *kd" "unsigned long addr" "const void *buf" "size_t nbytes"
61 functions are used to read and write kernel virtual memory (or a crash
66 for information regarding opening kernel virtual memory and crash dumps.
73 the kernel space address
83 Unlike their SunOS counterparts, these functions cannot be used to
84 read or write process address spaces.
88 function exists for convenience to read NUL terminated strings
89 from the kernel address space.
95 will allocate a sufficiently large buffer, which needs to be
104 will interpret the value it is pointing to as the size of
106 and will store the size of the complete string at
110 is too small to hold the complete string,
122 the number of bytes actually transferred is returned, if the request
124 Otherwise, -1 is returned.
129 is returned on failure.
130 Upon success, the address of the string is returned, which will be
132 if this was supplied.