That will be fantastic, I have some forensics life data gathering perl scripts which use IPC to communicate with MDB and gather the necessary data for parcing.
Direct invocation will be fantastic and greatly simplify the scripts and teh eventual memory footprint of my scripts which is essecial. Can I get a glimpse of what is done so far? Looking Forward Cheers Efi/ Eric Schrock wrote: >On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:30:37PM -0800, Alexandre Chartre wrote: > > >> It's good to know that you already have a full C grammar/compiler using >>CTF data. Having a built-in C-like language in mdb/kmdb will be great and >>is definitively the goal to reach (I also had this idea but interfacing mdb >>with Perl was much easier and quicker). >> >> I think we can make that goal and the reflexion you are proposing part >>of the project, this will help keep track of suggestions and we can study >>what benefits are provided by languages mdb will be interfaced with. This >>will also help define what would be useful for such a built-in language. >> >> So the project can be twofold: >> >> - provide information how scripting languages can be interfaced with >> mdb and provide support for some languages. >> >> - study and possibly implement a built-in language into mdb. >> >> I propose to change the project description to: >> >> The purpose of this project is to add support for scripting languages >> to the modular debugger (MDB). Support will be added as an interface >> to some existing scripting languages and ultimately as a built-in >> language into MDB. >> >> Scripting languages will use the MDB API so that MDB commands and >> functions >> can be invoked from the scripting language. They will also use CTF type >> information so that data structure can be directly accessed from the >> scripting language. >> >> This project will allow to write new MDB commands using scripting >> languages >> instead of having to write and compile a C module. Thus this will greatly >> reduce the time to write new MDB commands. >> >> This project will initially interface the PERL language with MDB. >> >> > >+1 from me. > >- Eric > >-- >Eric Schrock, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock >_______________________________________________ >mdb-discuss mailing list >mdb-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
