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Oracle Solaris Modular Debugger Guide     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Modular Debugger Overview

Introduction

MDB Features

Using MDB

Future Enhancements

2.  Debugger Concepts

3.  MDB Language Syntax

4.  Using MDB Commands Interactively

5.  Built-In Commands

6.  Execution Control

7.  Kernel Execution Control

8.  Kernel Debugging Modules

9.  Debugging With the Kernel Memory Allocator

10.  Module Programming API

A.  MDB Options

B.  Notes

C.  Transition From adb and kadb

D.  Transition From crash

Index

Using MDB

MDB is available on Oracle Solaris systems as two commands that share common features: mdb and kmdb. You can use the mdb command interactively or in scripts to debug live user processes, user process core files, kernel crash dumps, the live operating system, object files, and other files. You can use the kmdb command to debug the live operating system kernel and device drivers when you also need to control and halt the execution of the kernel. To start mdb, use the mdb command as described in the mdb(1) man page. To start kmdb, boot the system as described in the kmdb(1) man page, or execute the mdb command with the -K option.