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Hi,

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:36:17PM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:

> i'm just concerned that /var/db/kvm.db and /dev/ksyms are standard
> locations, whereas the actual location of the booted kernel is not.

why would /dev/ksyms not be there for a live kernel? For analyzing
core dumps, we have to use nlist anyway, right?
 
> and that lots of programs, when given a namelist file, will drop all
> privs, so most things won't work for the average user if the standard
> locations don't work.

Yes, but int the new world order, /dev/ksyms would always be around, wouldn't
it?

Regards,
	-is
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