Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:33:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Make long ddb not suck Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307301410410.23956-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030730170905.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > I have a patch that adds a simple paging facility to ddb at the > db_printf() level using a one-shot callback mechanism. It includes > a simple paging callback that rearms itself based on the users > input (space does another page, enter another line). I've used this > facility to replace the hand-rolled paging in 'ps', 'show pci', and > 'show ktr'. The patch is at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ddb.patch > > Comments? > > Also, I notice that we have a 'show threads' command commented out from > the original Mach sources. I think we should change 'ps' back to just > showing simple process info (and hopefully back to 80 cols) and only > print thread info for 'show threads'. Maybe show threads should take a > PID as the argument? we do have "show thread (addr)" that shows the stacktrace. "show threads {pid}" would be good to identify the address of the thread to examine.. > > Thus, one would have: > > db> ps > 1 blah blah sleeping on "foo" > 2 blah blah threaded > > db> show threads 2 > 0 blah blah sleeping on "bar" > 1 blah blah running on cpuX > currently ps shows the threads by default.. either way is ok I guess. > etc. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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