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To: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: Weird problem with devstat interface 
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In message <200506281749.j5SHnPlr017616@quarter.csl.sri.com>, Fred Gilham write
s:

>I have been able to get the program to stop doing this by changing the
>calls to
>
>devstat_checkversion()
>devstat_getnumdevs()
>devstat_getdevs()
>
>so they don't use the kvm interface but the sysctl interface
>(i.e. passing NULL instead of a file descriptor to /dev/kvm).

You shouldn't be using the kvm interface in the first place.

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