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Re: how to tell which symbols are exported?
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Re: how to tell which symbols are exported?


  • Subject: Re: how to tell which symbols are exported?
  • From: Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:31:11 -0400 (EDT)

Dean Reece writes:
 > On Apr 8, 2005, at 12:39, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > I there a tool to get a list of all the symbols that each of the
 > > loaded kernel extensions are exporting on a given system?
 >
 > Only look at kexts with the OSBundleCompatibleVersion property -
 > those are the ones available as libraries.
 >
 > Use the 'nm' command on the binary in the kext.  All of the symbols
 > that are "upper case" types are globals involved in linking - the
 > non-"U" symbols are the ones exported by the kext.  You can disregard
 > the '_' prefix on the symbols - it is an artifact of the way linkage
 > works.


Thanks..  The piece I was missing is that the "fake" extensions are
(somehow) bundled in /System/Library/Extensions/System.kext/PlugIns
and have actual Mach-o objects that I can run nm on.

Sorry for the noise..

Drew
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