Frank Hofmann wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Jan Kopriva wrote: > > [ ... ] >> 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. > Thanks, Frank for this suggestion. Makes better sense to use such already existing construct.
Jan
