[plug] System.map

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Wed May 19 19:48:10 WST 2004


Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Honestly, I'm not entirely sure.  I believe it has to do with kernel
> debugging?

It is definitely used by ksymoops to help decode kernel panics into a 
more useful and human readable form.  It _may_ be used by modutils as 
well, but I'm not too sure about that.  modutils doesn't seem to require 
a valid system.map, anyway.

Craig Ringer




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