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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:24:54 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_witness.c
Message-ID:  <20041228062454.GA56882@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041227172424.A85914@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200412262252.iBQMqPe7060613@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041227005456.GA57720@xor.obsecurity.org> <200412271600.26989.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20041227172424.A85914@fledge.watson.org>

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On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:27:44PM -0500, Andrew R. Reiter wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> :On Sunday 26 December 2004 07:54 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> :> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:52:24PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> :> > rwatson     2004-12-26 22:52:24 UTC
> :> >
> :> >   FreeBSD src repository
> :> >
> :> >   Modified files:
> :> >     sys/kern             subr_witness.c
> :> >   Log:
> :> >   Add "show alllocks" command to DDB, which dumps a list of processes
> :> >   and threads currently holding sleep mutexes (and spin mutexes for
> :> >   curthread).  This can be quite useful in looking for a lock condition
> :> >   summary for a system, as it avoids manually iterating through threads
> :> >   and processes to find all the interesting locks.
> :> >
> :> >   NB: "alllocks" is up there with "lockedvnods" for a bad argument for
> :> >   show.
> :>
> :> ITYM "allloks" or perhaps "alllockes" (conservation of vowels).
> :
> :If you want a better name you could do 'show locks /a' instead.  That is, add
> :support to 'show locks' for the /a option (see 'show ktr' for how you would
> :handle this by looking at 'modif').
> :
> 
> Seems like a good idea to me, John.  My only -- very minor -- issue with
> that is using '/' as the flag delimiter.  Not trying to be an asshole or
> anything, just seems to me that (unless there is some ddb options already
> there that use '/') using the forward slash is very cmd.exe-esque.

VAX VMS actually.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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