Hi Eric, Eric Schrock wrote: > > The power of debugging, in general, is lost on most developers. Thanks > to the work we've done in OpenSolaris (DTrace, MDB, CTF, ptools, etc), > the average OpenSolaris developer is vastly more engaged than your > typical developer. But as we've time and time again, you need to build > the tools first before developers can get excited about it. Just the > other day I found myself wanting ::loadctf, because I had used ::context > to examine a userland process from a crash dump, but I had no CTF data > available to print structures. It was sitting on disk, but there was no > way to tell MDB to load it. There are definitely some powerful things > you are doing that will be useful to developers. The mdb fanatics > among us are definitely hoping you'll continue your work. > I've thought about this some more. I assume you have a full memory dump when you switch context from the kernel to examine a userland process. I think the ability to load ctf information for the process would be extremely useful. Probably more useful than using CTF with the raw disk. I'll look into this shortly.
max
