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43 .Nd initialize kernel virtual memory access
50 .Fn kvm_open "const char *execfile" "const char *corefile" "const char *swapfile" "int flags" "const char *errstr"
52 .Fn kvm_openfiles "const char *execfile" "const char *corefile" "const char *swapfile" "int flags" "char *errbuf"
54 .Fn kvm_close "kvm_t *kd"
60 return a descriptor used to access kernel virtual memory
63 library routines. Both active kernels (including vkernels) and crash
64 dumps are accessible through this interface.
67 is the executable image of the kernel being examined.
68 This file must contain a symbol table.
71 the currently running system is assumed,
76 is the kernel memory device file. It can be /dev/mem, the path to
77 the procfs mem file for a running vkernel (i.e. /proc/$pid/mem)
78 or a crash dump core generated by
84 the default indicated by
91 should indicate the swap device. If
100 argument indicates read/write access as in
102 and applies only to the core file.
110 There are two open routines which differ only with respect to
112 One provides backward compatibility with the SunOS kvm library, while the
113 other provides an improved error reporting framework.
117 function is the Sun kvm compatible open call. Here, the
119 argument indicates how errors should be handled. If it is
121 no errors are reported and the application cannot know the
122 specific nature of the failed kvm call.
125 errors are printed to stderr with
127 prepended to the message, as in
129 Normally, the name of the program is used here.
130 The string is assumed to persist at least until the corresponding
138 style error reporting.
139 Here, error messages are not printed out by the library.
140 Instead, the application obtains the error message
141 corresponding to the most recent kvm library call using
145 The results are undefined if the most recent kvm call did not produce
149 requires a kvm descriptor, but the open routines return
153 cannot be used to get the error message if open fails.
156 will place any error message in the
158 argument. This buffer should be _POSIX2_LINE_MAX characters large (from
165 functions both return a descriptor to be used
166 in all subsequent kvm library calls.
167 The library is fully re-entrant.
170 is returned, in which case
172 writes the error message into
177 function returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.
189 There should not be two open calls. The ill-defined error semantics
190 of the Sun library and the desire to have a backward-compatible library