Peter Memishian wrote: > > We haven't really been treating it that way. Dcmds and walkers in mdb > > are frequently modified to match the kernel's private details without > > bothering with ARC review, on the theory that mdb is essentially much > > more like "syslog" than it is like "libc." > > There's historically been a distinction between dcmds and walkers that are > inherently tied to the object being examined and those that are part of > the mdb infrastructure itself.
True ... but is something like "::kgrep" or even "::whatis" any more viable as a building block for applications outside the confines of mdb itself? It's all fun and documentation until someone like Explorer gets hurt. :-/ -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
