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....
later,
chris
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