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On 3/25/2013 2:41 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 25/03/2013 02:19 Joshua Isom said the following:
>> I thought the debugger would have worked regardless.
>
> No, kgdb and libkvm have to be in sync with kernel.
> Unfortunately.
>

Is it a bug or necessity?