On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I had some code that worked on FreeBSD 3.4 to configure ISA devices.
> In order to get the ISA device settings, I used the kvm library, and
> started off by extracting the name lists for _isa_devtab_tty,
> _isa_devtab_bio, and _isa_devtab_net.
>
> I used to just give up if kvm_nlist returned a non-zero number. On
> FreeBSD 4.2 this is happening. Checking the manpage, I see that this
> could be that there are invalid values, so I changed the check to
> only give up of the return value is negative. The code now gets past the
> kvm_nlist, but fails on the first kvm_read that follows (which uses the
> n_value returned by kvm_nlist as the offset field).
>
> Is there a different mechanism in 4.2 to do the kind of stuff I'm
> trying to do? Should the code still work?
libkvm is being gradually deprecated - you don't have to use it to do what
you want. Please take a look at the code in src/sbin/kget - it does
something very similar.
Andrzej
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