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From: Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@FreeBSD.org>
To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r256512 - head/usr.bin/netstat
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Hi Gleb,

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:55:08AM +0000, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> Author: glebius
> Date: Tue Oct 15 09:55:07 2013
> New Revision: 256512
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/256512
> 
> Log:
>     Rewrite netstat/if.c to use getifaddrs(3) and getifmaddrs(3) instead of
>   libkvm digging in kernel memory. This is possible since r231506 made
>   getifaddrs(3) to supply if_data for each ifaddr.
>   
>     The pros of this change is that now netstat(1) doesn't know about kernel
>   struct ifnet and struct ifaddr. And these structs are about to change
>   significantly in head soon. New netstat binary will work well with 10.0
>   and any future kernel.
>   
>     The cons is that now it isn't possible to obtain interface statistics
>   from a vmcore.

Is there a kgdb macro or something like that that could be used for
debugging purpose?

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Jeremie Le Hen

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