bin/72875: Some utilities used in debugging do not function properly

[Tom Rhodes]

>Number:         72875
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Some utilities used in debugging do not function properly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 19 14:00:43 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tom Rhodes
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386
>Organization:
The FreeBSD Project
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD freefall.freebsd.org 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #13: Fri May 28 21:29:54 PDT 2004 kensmith at freefall.freebsd.org:/c/src/sys/compile/FREEFALL i386


	
>Description:
Some tools/utilities do not function properly with respect to
post mortum debugging.  For instance, vmstat(8), due to its use
of the sysctl(8) interface, will return the results from the running
kernel even when -M is specified.
>How-To-Repeat:
vmstat -M
>Fix:
You're smart.  :)
	


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