Who needs /dev/kmem? [LWN.net]

Who needs /dev/kmem?

Posted Sep 20, 2006 5:03 UTC (Wed) by maur0x (guest, #40613)
Parent article: Who needs /dev/kmem?

Hi,

This is my first message at this community, so let me tell you this site helped me a lot in the past.

I apologize for waking up this article that's been slept for a long time.

I was planning to make an investigation about mem devices. Unfortunately the most of the information i've found was about using it for programming some aplications (i.e. a "ps" for HP-UX), configuration and many other general uses mentioned before (debugging, patching, etc.) .

My first idea was to explain the background of these devices, the reasons why they were created at first time in AT&T Unix VI. Who used them. Design considerations. etc. I didn't find anything usefull to help me with this.

if someone does know some bibliography or link about this i will apreciate that.

Thanks in advance.

PD: Excuse my poor english.

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