topic Re: what is adb? in Operating System - Linux

what is adb?

RAVI S_1 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:18:52 GMT

Hi gurus,
Can anybody brief me about adb command in HP-UX?

Thanx,
Ravi S

Re: what is adb?

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:23:39 GMT

Hi Ravi:

# man adb

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: what is adb?

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:23:43 GMT

Shalom Ravi,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=993945

http://techsolutions.hp.com/en/B9106-90003/ch07s18.html

Its a debugging tool for programmers.

SEP

Re: what is adb?

Dennis Handly — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:15:25 GMT

You should NOT be using adb. Use a full featured debugger like wdb/gdb or kwdb.

You can download wdb/gdb for free:
http://www.hp.com/go/wdb
(And it has documentation you can understand.)

About the only use for adb is to be able to modify files and to look at the kernel.

You have not assigned any points yet, please read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

>SEP: Its a debugging tool for programmers.

I would say it is more like a self flagellation for expert hackers. ;-)

Re: what is adb?

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:39:46 GMT

Hi (again) Ravi:

Aside from self-flagellation as Dennis said, 'adb' can be used to query and convert some useful data:

To find the disk that you booted from:

# echo 'boot_string/S' | adb -o /stand/vmunix /dev/mem

...and for anyone averse to using Perl to convert an epoch timestamp to a date:

# epoch=1183163871
# echo "0d$epoch=Y" | adb | tr -d '\011'

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: what is adb?

RAVI S_1 — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:15:11 GMT

I got the answer