On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:55:26PM +0200, Norberto Lopes wrote: >> Hi. >> I've been taking a look at ktrace and kdump in order to get (1) familiar with the sources and (2) to finally try to give back something to the community. >> >> So far from what I've seen, and after reading this thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2006-April/005107.html it seems that most of those points got done. >> >> To warm up I changed the output of the stat structure in order to provide me with the device name (something I actually find useful for me sometimes) >> >> Instead of: >> 22596 cat STRU struct stat {dev=89, ino=3320836, mode=-r--r--r-- , nlink=1, uid=0, gid=0, atime=1284725358, stime=1284485510, ctime=1284485510, birthtime=1284485509, size=1172220, blksize=16384, blocks=2336, flags=0x20000 } >> >> I get this now (including major and minor): >> 22596 cat STRU struct stat {dev=<id=89:M=0:m=89> (/dev/ad4s1a), ino=3320836, mode=-r--r--r-- , nlink=1, uid=0, gid=0, atime=1284725358, stime=1284485510, ctime=1284485510, birthtime=1284485509, size=1172220, blksize=16384, blocks=2336, flags=0x20000 } >> >> I wouldn't mind having someone help me whenever and if I get stuck on the technical side (*wink* Alexander Leidinger *wink*) and also to give me more insight on what the road to help in this should be. >> >> P.S.: I'm still going through "man style" hence no patch attached. If anyone finds this one useful, I'll reply with the patch though. >> > How do you look up the device name by st_dev ? Note that the number is > generated by devfs at the moment of cdev creation. It is only valid on > the machine where stat(2) is done, and only due to the next reboot. > Through a really ugly hack... opendir("/dev") readdir("/dev") go through them and find the one... Yes, I know, painful and ugly, but as I usually use kdump with no reboots between analysis (I hardly ever reboot actually), and because I find it exhausting to keep going back to look up the device name, this kept me happy enough. :)Received on Fri Sep 17 2010 - 18:48:44 UTC
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