Anyway, attached is the patch. All (constructive) criticism is welcome, even if it has to deal with "how I should do things freebsd way (in case there is one)". On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Norberto Lopes <nlopes.ml_at_gmail.com> wrote: > 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. :) >
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