[ale] System.map

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On 18 Jan 2001, scott thomason wrote:

> It's my understanding that with modern kernels (including recent 2.2.x
> releases), System.map is unnecessary unless you're trying to translate
> kernel oopses into symbolic names to make debugging easier. So if you
> aren't planning on debugging kernel problems, System.map is unnecessary.
> I intentionally read up on this in the 2.4 kernel doc, as I have often
> wondered about it. However, I'm only 90% certain. Comments, anyone?

Some user-space utils still need system.map as well.  ps, for example, needs
it on both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu


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