1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/getloadavg.c b/src/getloadavg.c
index 339e9ba419a..49612bf2b57 100644
--- a/src/getloadavg.c
+++ b/src/getloadavg.c
@@ -699,7 +699,6 @@ getloadavg (loadavg, nelem)
   /* Get the address of LDAV_SYMBOL.  */
   if (offset == 0)
     {
-#ifndef SUNOS_5
 #ifndef sgi
 #ifndef NLIST_STRUCT
       strcpy (nl[0].n_name, LDAV_SYMBOL);
@@ -714,6 +713,7 @@ getloadavg (loadavg, nelem)
 #endif /* not NLIST_NAME_UNION */
 #endif /* NLIST_STRUCT */
 
+#ifndef SUNOS_5
       if (nlist (KERNEL_FILE, nl) >= 0)
         /* Omit "&& nl[0].n_type != 0 " -- it breaks on Sun386i.  */
         {
@@ -722,6 +722,7 @@ getloadavg (loadavg, nelem)
 #endif
           offset = nl[0].n_value;
         }
+#endif  /* !SUNOS_5 */
 #else /* sgi */
       int ldav_off;
 
@@ -729,7 +730,6 @@ getloadavg (loadavg, nelem)
       if (ldav_off != -1)
         offset = (long) ldav_off & 0x7fffffff;
 #endif /* sgi */
-#endif  /* !SUNOS_5 */
     }
 
   /* Make sure we have /dev/kmem open.  */
@@ -740,10 +740,14 @@ getloadavg (loadavg, nelem)
       if (channel >= 0)
         getloadavg_initialized = 1;
 #else /* SUNOS_5 */
+      /* We pass 0 for the kernel, corefile, and swapfile names
+         to use the currently running kernel.  */
       kd = kvm_open (0, 0, 0, O_RDONLY, 0);
       if (kd != 0) 
         {
+          /* nlist the currently running kernel.  */
           kvm_nlist (kd, nl);
+          offset = nl[0].n_value;
           getloadavg_initialized = 1;
         }
 #endif /* SUNOS_5 */