kvm.3 (753d686d34e90c2a4fe6afa14bd5f19d94f17699) kvm.3 (ae828962685b8ae9e5104ce8e7fe8b05effcb9ec)
1.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" This code is derived from software developed by the Computer Systems
5.\" Engineering group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract
6.\" BG 91-66 and contributed to Berkeley.
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8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

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78applications (i.e., debuggers and statistical monitors) use only
79this subset of the interface.
80.Pp
81The process interface was not kept. This is not a portability
82issue since any code that manipulates processes is inherently
83machine dependent.
84.Pp
85Finally, the Sun kvm error reporting semantics are poorly defined.
1.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" This code is derived from software developed by the Computer Systems
5.\" Engineering group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory under DARPA contract
6.\" BG 91-66 and contributed to Berkeley.
7.\"
8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

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78applications (i.e., debuggers and statistical monitors) use only
79this subset of the interface.
80.Pp
81The process interface was not kept. This is not a portability
82issue since any code that manipulates processes is inherently
83machine dependent.
84.Pp
85Finally, the Sun kvm error reporting semantics are poorly defined.
86The library can be configured either to print errors to stderr automatically,
86The library can be configured either to print errors to
87.Dv stderr
88automatically,
87or to print no error messages at all.
88In the latter case, the nature of the error cannot be determined.
89To overcome this, the
90.Bx
91interface includes a
92routine,
93.Xr kvm_geterr 3 ,
94to return (not print out) the error message

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89or to print no error messages at all.
90In the latter case, the nature of the error cannot be determined.
91To overcome this, the
92.Bx
93interface includes a
94routine,
95.Xr kvm_geterr 3 ,
96to return (not print out) the error message

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