/lib/udev/devices/core

[Florian Diesch]

Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:11 +0530, savita at iwavesystems.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> i want to know who calls this following binary file(core) in ubuntu 9.04.
>> 
>> lib/udev/devices/core
>> 
>> what this file do?
>> 
> froller at metis:~$ locate lib/udev/devices/core
> /lib/udev/devices/core
> froller at metis:~$ whatis core
> core (5)             - core dump file

/lib/udev/devices/core is not a core file but a symlink to /proc/kcore

/proc/kcore is a virtual file to have raw access to the memory.



   Florian
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