The advanced debugger adb is the standard UNIX

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found on Solaris 1 and 2,

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, SCO and

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. It is the successor of a debugger called db.

Overview

The initial version was written by

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. ADB is the standard debugger on Solaris and the Solaris kernel debugger ''kadb'' that was introduced with SunOS-3.5 (1986) is a minor variant of adb. A version of ADB was integrated into the

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kernel as a kernel debugger. On Solaris, ADB was replaced by the Modular Debugger mdb with Solaris 8 (2000) and the ADB command-line interface now is emulated by mdb when it is called as adb. Mdb has become OpenSource with OpenSolaris.

References

External links

A Tutorial Introduction to ADB. J. F. Maranzano, S. R. Bourne
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Overview

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