question about vmunix

From: Irfan A Siddiqui <iasiddiq_at_austx.tandem.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 16:51:23 -0700

Dear Sir:

Lately when i checked out the /stand directory on my Unix box I saw
these files in there:

unix unix.sav vmunix vmunix.old

I am curious about the role of vmunix in the big picture of unix.
I know that the current kernel of my system runs off of /stand/unix.
When we rebuild kernel the older version of the kernel gets saved in
unix.sav. But what exactly is vmunix or vmunix.old doing. Can u help me
figure this out?

Thanks

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Irfan Siddiqui
UNIX Support Analyst
TNSC, Austin TX 
 
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Received on Tue Jun 16 1998 - 23:49:04 NZST