Dear All,

    I posted several files of notes from the Thu class in the course
directory:

    syscalls-in-linux-and-opensolaris.txt

on looking at the process table on Illumos in kernel memory:

    proc_t-kernel-view.txt

For the breakpoint instruction's use in DTrace internals:

    simple-dtrace-internals-example.txt

On setting up a Linux kernel image for browsing with GDB as a core 
file (_not_ live, unlike "mdb -k"):

    browsing-linux-kernel-binary.txt


About tools: DTrace, MDB (you can start reading these now; we'll be 
working our way through these next week; make sure you install OpenIndiana 
in a virtual machine to play along!)

    DTrace: dtrace-overview.txt, dtrace-exercises.txt, dtrace-script-examples.txt, d/

    MDB: mdb-reference-chapter.pdf

From Tuesday: surprises-with-linux-getpid.txt.

The latter is an ia32 (32-bit) example. For an x86_64 (64-bit) example, 
see walking-to-syscall-64bits.txt . Read it if you aren't used to 64-bit asm.

If you missed some of the previously emailed class notes, look at the 
other notes as well! (dyn-linking-with-gdb.txt, dynamic-linking.txt)

Have a great weekend,

--Sergey