From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 24 03:47:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA19497 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 03:47:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA19485 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 03:47:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from exalt.x.org by expo.x.org id AA18009; Sat, 24 Feb 96 06:47:16 -0500 Received: from localhost by exalt.x.org id LAA01043; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:47:15 GMT Message-Id: <199602241147.LAA01043@exalt.x.org> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Whither ddb In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 23 Feb 1996 18:16:54 EDT. <20401.825128214@time.cdrom.com> Organization: X Consortium Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 06:47:15 EDT From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Broadcast thanks to David Greenman, Nate Williams, Joerg Wunsch, Faried Nawaz, and Jordan. > > `man -k debug` hints at ddb. `man ddb` says it's a better replacement for > > kdb. I've built ddb support into my kernel? > > I'm not sure about that question mark there - have you or haven't you? :-) I have. > > `options DDB' is what you need to use to compile DDB into your kernel, > at which point you can invoke it at any time by hitting ctrl-alt-esc. Ah, I see. I haven't looked at the ddb man page in -stable or -current but the 2.1R ddb man page says nothing about this -- 'twould have saved some trouble if it had. > The system will also drop into the debugger automagically on panics, > which is usually the primary use of it. Except that the syscalls I've added don't cause a panic, so ctrl-alt-esc is a nice thing to know about. :-) Regards. -- Kaleb