Nicolas Williams writes: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:41:21PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > It seems *awfully* strange to me that we feel obliged to integrate a set > > of command line utilities which are designed to provide raw access to a > > hardware bus to the command line. > > I don't think that's trange at all. It's a useful debug aid at the very > least, and it may well be a useful integrator's tool for gluing things > together as well.
It is strange when I'd expect to do this sort of hackery via "mdb -kw", and not by way of some odd /usr/sbin utility. What's next? /usr/sbin/peek and /usr/sbin/poke? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at 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
