On 03:20 Sat 29 Mar , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> following up on a short article i just read, where is /dev/kmem
> these days? was it actually deleted? back in 2005, jon corbet was
> certainly hinting at this:
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
>
> and i don't see it today on my system, and i don't see a kernel config
> option for it either, but i also don't see an explicit removal of that
> feature in "git log" and log entries as recent as january of last year
> still talk about it.
I do not know if it is still in the kernel. But the missing device says
nothing. You can create it with "mknod /dev/kmem c 1 2". Also see the manpage
of mknod and the "devices.txt" file in the kernel Documentation/.
-Michi
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