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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:10:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: kern/4551: cat /proc/*/mem gives "cat: /proc/0/mem: Bad address"
Message-ID:  <199709160410.VAA19202@hub.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/4551; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To: ortmann@sparc.isl.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/4551: cat /proc/*/mem gives "cat: /proc/0/mem: Bad address"
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:59:59 -0700

 Daniel Ortmann scribbled this message on Sep 15:
 > cat /proc/*/mem >/dev/null produces the following:
 > 
 > cat: /proc/0/mem: Bad address
 
 umm.. isn't this expected at /proc/*/mem is the actually memory, and
 the first page (at least) is usually unmapped)...
 
 > cat: /proc/1/mem: Bad address
 > cat: /proc/119/mem: Bad address
 > cat: /proc/122/mem: Bad address
 > cat: /proc/125/mem: Bad address
 > 
 > I expected 
 
 what did you expect??
 
 > cat /proc/*/mem >/dev/null
 
 just this?? 
 
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