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Date:      Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:48:17 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS Problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902240847560.60339-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <86btikdiie.fsf@detlev.UUCP>

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On 23 Feb 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:

> >> This reminds me; do we have a utility to reference wmesg strings back
> >> to the code that sets them, a la TAGS?  Would this be useful?
> > No, and yes respectively.
> 
> I have the scanner mostly written; there is one bug yet to fix (This
> time for sure!).  Presently, it creates a single file WTAGS which
> contains an easily-read (my man or machine) flat file index.  I will
> presently be modifying it to generate Emacs's etags format, as well as
> ctags, and as soon as I learn it, GSYMS format.
> 
> At the moment, the scanner scans tsleep, asleep, and ttysleep calls.
> What other sleep functions can have the wchan specified as a string
> literal?  There being no robust manner to handle calls with a computed
> or dereferenced wchan, such as acquire(), I will allow for a notation
> of /* WCHAN: foo */ to cause the appropriate information to be added
> to the database.

lockinit() takes a wmesg string which is used when a process sleeps on the
lock.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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