Document that kvm_open(3) also accepts "/dev/null" as a special

"corefile" argument, to access the running system via sysctl(3)
if possible, thus not requring special setgid privileges.
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Ruslan Ermilov 2004-03-26 08:05:39 +00:00
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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\" @(#)kvm_open.3 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
.Dd January 29, 2004
.Dt KVM_OPEN 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ as determined from
.Pp
The
.Fa corefile
argument is the kernel memory device file. It can be either /dev/mem
argument is the kernel memory device file.
It can be either
.Pa /dev/mem
or a crash dump core generated by
.Xr savecore 8 .
If
@ -87,7 +89,14 @@ is
.Dv NULL ,
the default indicated by
.Dv _PATH_MEM
from <paths.h> is used.
from
.In paths.h
is used.
It can also be set to a special value
.Pa /dev/null
by utilities like
.Xr ps 1
that do not directly access kernel memory.
.Pp
The
.Fa swapfile
@ -190,4 +199,6 @@ left little choice.
.Xr kvm_getprocs 3 ,
.Xr kvm_nlist 3 ,
.Xr kvm_read 3 ,
.Xr kvm_write 3
.Xr kvm_write 3 ,
.Xr kmem 4 ,
.Xr mem 4