Chris Ricker wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me the purpose of System.map and map files? I can only
> > find a few references to them in the howtos and kernel mail list
> > archive.
>
> System.map is a table of all the symbols in the kernel. As for its purpose,
> a few user-land programs (mainly stuff from the procps suite) use it, and if
> you get a kernel Oops you use it to figure out where the Oops occurred....
Thanks, so it's not necessary for the kernel to run properly. After
upgrading my kernel I happened to notice that I had a couple of copies
and wanted to insure that I had the right one, in the event it was
necessary.
>
> later,
> chris
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