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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD striping the debug info from the kernel
Date: 22 Jun 1996 11:56:16 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) wrote:

> >  strip -x kernel
> >  make install
> 
> I have heared that stripping the kernel is no god idea. I dont know why, 
> but I dont do it ...

Only stripping _all_ symbols (which he didn't intend to do) is a bad
idea, since nlist(3) will fail then.  Several utilities like ps(1)
still rely on nlist.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)