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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:18:58 +1030
From:      "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need source to TCP/IP  'connect()'
Message-ID:  <20041130024858.GA16962@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <20041130023542.GA390@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
References:  <62A29338972397468405C79C4FE13C3B013DDDD4@ex1.messagegate.local>  <20041130023542.GA390@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>

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   0n Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:35:42PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote: 

   > When 'fishing' for stuff in the kernel source code I find the tags
   > files kind of useful.  In a kernel build directory (e.g. I usually
   > use src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC on a 5.X machine, after config-ing
   > GENERIC) after doing a 'make depend' you can do 'make tags'.  It
   > will usually fail once it starts to process the modules because it
   > can't find 'gtags' but by then it's already built what is most useful.
   > 
   > Once the tags file is built in the kernel build directory you can
   > do something like:
   > 
   > 	vi -t connect
   > 
   > and it will start up vi with the cursor at the beginning of that
   > function.  It's not perfect (sometimes it can't find a function)
   > but for the most part it works OK.
   > 
   > In this case it found connect() in /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c
   > (I was using a RELENG_5 source tree).

Ken,

This looks useful, however, even after a buildkernel all I have 
is a CVS dir in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/.

Did u mean /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC ?

When u say "config-ing", do u mean running config(8) manually ?

 -aW



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