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Date:      Sat, 22 Nov 1997 13:50:28 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        evanc@synapse.net, j_mini@efn.org
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk
Subject:   Re: Stripping the kernel
Message-ID:  <199711220250.NAA04800@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Evan, you are absolutely right. It is Bad and Evil to read things out of the
>kernel memory. I have hated it from the start. However, look at the uses of
>the kernel tompling, and come up with an effective efficient way to do the same
>things, and I will even write it for you. :)

Don't forget that it has to work on a long-running kernel running
at securelevel 2 (where group kmem can read kmem but even root can't
add LKMs).  Missing interfaces may develop over the years :-).

Bruce



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