what is going on here ???

[ab at unido.UUCP]

If you are running 4.2, look at the following short program and
guess what it will do. Then compile and run it and find out
what it really does. 

Try to explain its behavior!! (- Is it a bug in 4.2 ??? :-) )

	Andreas

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Andreas Bormann                 ab at unido.UUCP
University of Dortmund          N 51 29' 05"   E 07 24' 42"
West Germany

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#include <nlist.h>

#define NAMELIST "/vmunix"

struct nlist    avenrun[] = {
      { "_avenrun" },
      { "" }
};

main()
{
	register int    kmem;
	double  avg[3];

	if((kmem = open ("/dev/kmem", 0) < 0)) {
		printf("Cannot open kmem\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	nlist(NAMELIST, avenrun);
	if(avenrun[0].n_type == 0) {
		printf("Cannot find avenrun\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	lseek(kmem, (long) avenrun[0].n_value, 0);
	read(kmem, (char *) avg, 3 * sizeof (double));
	printf("Load average: %f %f %f\n", avg[0], avg[1], avg[2]);
	exit(0);
}