On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:57:37PM +0000, Frank Hofmann wrote: > >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'.
I do not see this as inconsistent. There is no point to -a in such a case unless you want the address. Just don't use -a! It's possible that the help message could be tweaked though (if it's not already). regards john
