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Re: System.map problem



it's a list of the addresses of kernel exported variables.

mostly not needed except by kmod and a few strange apps like dosemu.

	see http://www.dirac.org/p/linux

for more details.

pete


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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:35:12AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it happend after I compiled the kernel, and yes, I see that size
> > of /boot/System.map-2.2.17 is different from that of
> > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/System.map
> 
>     Just curious people, but what purpose does the system map serve? 
> 
>     Mike
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