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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: DDB?  Debugging kernel?
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On 2005-01-27 22:39, John <john@starfire.mn.org> wrote:
> OK, folks - I've looked in the Handbook, and I've looked in _The
> Complete FreeBSD_ and I just get more confused.
>
> Is the option DDB gone?  If so, how do you get ddb functions like
> db_readline into the kernel?  _The Complete FreeBSD_ still describes
> it, but the handbook doesn't mention it, and a "grep -i ddb *" in the
> conf directory comes up empty.

It's called KDB now.  /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES contains (among other KDB
related options):

	#
	# Compile with kernel debugger related code.
	#
	options         KDB