replace ndbm with Margo Seltzer's hashing package

document VERSION stuff

SCCS-vsn: usr.sbin/kvm_mkdb/kvm_mkdb.8 5.1

diff --git a/usr/src/usr.sbin/kvm_mkdb/kvm_mkdb.8 b/usr/src/usr.sbin/kvm_mkdb/kvm_mkdb.8
index 293f4df..99b4bcf 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/src/usr.sbin/kvm_mkdb/kvm_mkdb.8
+++ b/usr/src/usr.sbin/kvm_mkdb/kvm_mkdb.8
@@ -3,26 +3,35 @@
 .\"
 .\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
 .\"
 .\"
 .\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
 .\"

-.\"    @(#)kvm_mkdb.8  1.2 (Berkeley) %G%
+.\"    @(#)kvm_mkdb.8  5.1 (Berkeley) %G%

 .\"
 .TH kvm_mkdb 8 ""
 .UC 7
 .SH NAME
 kvm_mkdb \- create kernel database
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .\"
 .TH kvm_mkdb 8 ""
 .UC 7
 .SH NAME
 kvm_mkdb \- create kernel database
 .SH SYNOPSIS

-.B kvm_mkdb
+.B kvm_mkdb [ file ]

 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .SH DESCRIPTION

-.I kvm_mkdb
-creates a database in /var/run containing information about /vmunix and
-possibly other fairly static information about the current system.
-Various library routines consult this database.
-The only information currently stored is the kernel namelist, which is
-used by the
+.I Kvm_mkdb
+creates a
+.IR db(3)
+database in ``/var/run/kvm_vmunix.db'' which contains the
+namelist of
+.I file
+(or, by default,  /vmunix).
+Each symbol is stored with its name as the key and its associated
+nlist structure as the data.
+.PP
+The 

 .IR kvm_nlist (3)
 .IR kvm_nlist (3)

-function.
+library routines use this database.
+.PP
+The text string found at the location referenced by the symbol
+``_version'' is stored as the data associated with the special
+key ``VERSION''.

 .SH FILES
 .SH FILES

-/vmunix
+/vmunix                                Default file read for namelist

 .br
 .br

-/var/run/kvm_vmunix.{dir,pag}
+/var/run/kvm_vmunix.db Database file

 .SH SEE ALSO
 .SH SEE ALSO

-kvm_nlist(3)
+db(3), kvm_nlist(3), nlist(3), dev_mkdb(8)