On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:39:27PM +0000, Frank Hofmann wrote: > >> You're running a machine that has a mapping at NULL (or whatever the >> contents were of mi_lowat) > > Nah, he's just more up to date than you :) > >>> strm_info::print -a mi_lowat | /W 1 >> mdb: failed to write 1 at address 0x400: no mapping for address >> >> One can use '=' or '/' after a pipe, but it will operate on the _last_ >> string of the output, not the _first_ one as needed here. > > True, but this is special-cased now: > > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/mdb/common/mdb/mdb_print.c#1446
Can this be overridden ? If '/...' operates on the first instead of the last output work, it breaks the old example: *log_recentq::print queue_t q_first | ::walk b_next | ::walk b_cont | ::print mblk_t b_rptr | /s if an '-a' is inserted after the '::print'. Not keen on such inconsistency. FrankH.
