[osol-discuss] Re: Shipping "lsof" with Solaris ? / was: Re: problem with /t

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>It occurred to me that we might be able to leverage the CTF
>information that mdb uses to decode structures in the kernel.
>Unfortunately, last I looked, the CTF lookup code in mdb was not a
>public interface, so I'm not sure we can go there at this point.  But
>if we could, then we could use CTF to look up the structure definition
>and avoid recompiling lsof (or some similar program).

For some things, such as computing offsets in structures, CTF
data is a possible source.

For other things, such as complete rewrites of how the kernel works in
certain areas, of which we see several each OS release, it would not
work.

Casper