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Revision as of 11:31, 13 January 2015 edit Schily (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 2,524 edits Neither the text "kadb" nor "adb" can be found easily in the FreeBSD kernel, so verify that there really is adb based code in *BSD ← Previous edit		Latest revision as of 15:11, 30 June 2025 edit undo Guy Harris (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 80,059 edits Undid revision 1293573084 by Hithere1776 (talk) - that's another unrelated "adb". Tag: Undo
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Line 1: {{Short description\|General-purpose debugger for Unix platforms}} ~~{{unreferenced\|date=September 2010}}~~ {{for\|the command used to communicate with an Android system, also named '''adb'''\|Android Debug Bridge}} {{refimprove\|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox Software \| name = adb \| logo = \| screenshot = \| screenshot size = \| caption = \| author = [[Stephen R. Bourne]] \| developer = [[AT&T Bell Laboratories]] \| released = {{Start date and age\|1979\|1\|br=y}} \| latest release version = \| latest release date = \| operating system = [[Unix]] and [[Unix-like]] \| genre = [[Command (computing)\|Command]] \| license = \| website = }} The advanced{{cn\|date=April 2024}} debugger '''adb''' is a [[debugger]] that first appeared in [[Seventh Edition UNIX]].<ref>{{man\|1\|adb\|v7}}</ref> It is found on [[Solaris (operating system)\|Solaris]], [[HP-UX]], [[OpenServer\|SCO]] and [[Venix]]. It is the successor of a debugger called '''db'''. ==Overview== The advanced debugger '''adb''' is the standard UNIX debugger found on Solaris 1 and 2, HP-UX and SCO. The initial version was written by [[Steve Bourne]]. It is the successor of a debugger called '''db'''. The initial version was written by [[Stephen R. Bourne]].<ref name="reader">{{cite tech report \|first1=M. D. \|last1=McIlroy \|authorlink1=Doug McIlroy \|year=1987 \|url=https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf \|title=A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 \|series=CSTR \|number=139 \|institution=Bell Labs \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730004547/https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf \|archive-date=2023-07-30 \|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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]] now is emulated by mdb when it is called as adb. Mdb has become [[open source]] with [[OpenSolaris]].<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Solaris performance and tools DTrace and MDB techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris 0131568191, 9780131568198 \|url=https://dokumen.pub/solaris-performance-and-tools-dtrace-and-mdb-techniques-for-solaris-10-and-opensolaris-0131568191-9780131568198.html \|access-date=2023-06-06 \|website=dokumen.pub \|language=en}}</ref> The SunOS kernel debugger ''kadb'' that was introduced with SunOS 3.5 (1986) is a minor variant of adb. ~~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.~~ ==See also== ~~A version of ADB was integrated into the [[BSD]] kernel as a kernel debugger.{{cn}}~~ [[dbx (debugger)\|dbx]] ==References== ~~Use of ADB has largely replaced by the symbolic debugger [[dbx debugger\|DBX]].~~ {{Reflist}} ==External links== [http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/adb/adb.pdf A Tutorial Introduction to ADB. J. F. Maranzano, S. R. Bourne] / Bell Laboratories {{Unix commands}} [[Category:Debuggers]]