Saturday, April 14, 2007

 

Undocumented feature in devfsadm

I was looking at the source code for devfsadm when I ran across something interesting in devfsadm.c:
    961  vprint(CHATTY_MID, "walking device tree\n");

I checked out devfsadm.h and found this:
     98 #define CHATTY_MID  "chatty"  /* prints with -V chatty */

I tried the "-V chatty" option and saw something a little more informative than a simple "failed to attach" message":
devfsadm[5355]: chatty: process_devinfo_tree: enter
devfsadm[5355]: chatty: lock_dev(): entered
devfsadm[5355]: chatty: mkdirp(/dev, 0x1ed)
devfsadm[5355]: chatty: process_devinfo_tree: attaching driver (rtls)
devfsadm[5355]: chatty: attempting pre-cleanup
devfsadm[5355]: chatty: devi_tree_walk: root=/, minor=, driver=rtls, error=0, flags=68
devfsadm: driver failed to attach: rtls
exit status = 1

(And of course, my first thought is, "Hey, a good starting point for DTrace!" Unfortunately, devfsadm is distributed as a stripped binary:
# ./devfsadm.d -c "devfsadm -i rtls"
dtrace: failed to compile script ./devfsadm.d: line 5: probe description pid5937::devi_tree_walk:entry does not match any probes
# file `which devfsadm`
/usr/sbin/devfsadm: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
#

Guh. Not that it's the end of the world, but guh.


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