From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mark.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  /dev/kmem
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5220
Posted: Mon Feb 28 01:59:57 1983
Received: Tue Mar  1 07:31:33 1983

From:     Mark Weiser 
Date:     1 Jan 83 09:34:15 EST  (Sat)
Looking through /dev/kmem without a source license may be impossible.
Does no source license mean that the objects have no symbol tables?
Then there is no hope.  If not, (and come to think of it, it must
not mean that since vmstat actually uses the symbol table dynmically...)
then you only need to look at where vmstat gets its stuff--but this
requires looking at the vmstat code.  The Berkeley kernel is full of 
places which take a few microseconds to stuff a statistic aside, but
finding them all would amount to having the source code.