The advanced debugger adb is a
debugger
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that first appeared in
Seventh Edition UNIX
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. It is found on
Solaris
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It may refer to:
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* ''Solaris'' (novel), a 1961 science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem
** ''Solaris'' (1968 film), directed by Boris Nirenburg
** ''Sol ...
,
HP-UX
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,
SCO and
Venix
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. It is the successor of a debugger called db.
Overview
The initial version was written by
Stephen R. Bourne.
ADB was provided with Solaris until Solaris 8 (2000), when it was replaced by the
Modular Debugger (mdb) with Solaris 8 (2000) and the ADB
command-line interface
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now is emulated by mdb when it is called as adb. Mdb has become
open source
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with
OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris () is a discontinued open-source computer operating system for SPARC and x86 based systems, created by Sun Microsystems and based on Solaris. Its development began in the mid 2000s and ended in 2010.
OpenSolaris was developed as ...
.
The SunOS kernel debugger ''kadb'' that was introduced with SunOS 3.5 (1986) is a minor variant of adb.
See also
*
dbx dbx or DBX may refer to:
* dbx (debugger), a Unix source-level debugger
* dbx (company), a professional audio recording equipment company
** dbx (noise reduction), a noise reduction system invented by dbx, Inc.
* .dbx, the file extension for Micros ...
References
External links
A Tutorial Introduction to ADB. J. F. Maranzano, S. R. Bourne/ Bell Laboratories
Debuggers
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