"James" == James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It occurred to me that we might be able to leverage the CTF >> information that mdb uses to decode structures in the kernel. >> Unfortunately, last I looked, the CTF lookup code in mdb was not a >> public interface, so I'm not sure we can go there at this point. But >> if we could, then we could use CTF to look up the structure definition >> and avoid recompiling lsof (or some similar program).
James> That only solves part of the problem (the binary offset issues). A James> bigger problem is that the structures and the structure members James> themselves are not stable between patches or builds -- they're not James> stable interfaces in the first place. This means that if someone James> renames "foo" to "bar," CTF isn't going to be able to tell you what James> happened to "foo." Agreed. -- Dave Marquardt Sun Microsystems, Inc. Austin, TX +1 512 401-1077 (SUN internal: x64077) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
