Overview of Debugging Facilities

Thischapter describes some of the tools available to assist in debugging STREAMS-based applications.

The basic categories available for debugging can be broken into these areas:

• Kernel debug printing - kernel facilities for printing from inside drivers

• STREAMS error logging - a STREAMS-supported model of generating error messages and allowing them to be received by one of three different types of loggers

• Kernel-examination tools - which include the tools bundled with the operating system