Nicolas Williams writes: > But the point is that kmdb scripting and lsof are on the same footing.
Yes, it's exactly the same thing by slightly different means. The difference, and it's not much, is that a user of mdb looking at the kernel likely knows that unless the target is stopped (as with mdb -K), the data structures are volatile, and that the contents of most of the structures is undocumented territory, so you need to have cscope open in another window while you try this trick. The user of 'lsof', on the other hand, is likely an administrator who believes he's getting the truth about what his system is actually doing. Unfortunately, that faith is at least a little misplaced due to the nature of reading from live kernel memory. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carl...@sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org
