On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Jan Kopriva wrote:

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> oh ok. Sorry, I should have been more concrete in my previous posts. We 
> actually aim exactly for this. Another question is how to force mdb in an 
> elegant way to
> recognize the address specified on the mdb prompt to be different object from 
> memory address (i.e. for the inode use a suffix? that is processed by the 
> modified command line parser,
> so one can do something like this: 6i::print -p struct icommon)

This sounds more like a case for pipes, aka "fake usage scenario":

6::inum2diskaddr | ::print struct icommon

Why is this better ?
In ordinary mdb, you wouldn't request "1p::print struct proc" either, 
you'd write "1::pid2proc | ::print struct proc". See the similarity ?

FrankH.

>
> Regarding loading the CTF info, I think you said you have started with the 
> implementation. If we can look on the code it would be great. Or, if you want 
> to implement this fully we can connect this with our future work.
>
> Regards
>
> Jan
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