libkvm: consumers of kvm_getprocs for non-live kernels?

[Julian Elischer]

On 11/10/10 12:41 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this cleanup of libkvm sitting in my tree and it needs a little
> bit of testing, especially the function kvm_proclist, which is only
> called from kvm_deadprocs which is only called from kvm_getprocs when kd
> is not ALIVE.
>
> The only consumer in our tree that I can make out is *probably* kgdb, as
> ps(1), top(1), w(1), pkill(1), fstat(1), systat(1), pmcstat(8) and
> bsnmpd don't really work on coredumps

they used to.
you should ask on -current because more people who know hang out there.

> But, the kgdb file gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/kvm-fbsd.c, where
> kvm_getprocs is probably called on a dead kernel is not even used during
> build!
>
> So I guess I'm staring at dead code here, any kvm people around that can
> clue me in?
>
> Thanks,
> Uli
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