Advanced Debugger

General-purpose debugger for Unix platforms

adb
Original author(s)	Stephen R. Bourne
Developer(s)	AT&T Bell Laboratories
Initial release	January 1979; 45 years ago (1979-01)
Operating system	Unix and Unix-like
Type	Command

The advanced^{[citation needed]} debugger adb is a debugger that first appeared in Seventh Edition UNIX.^[1] It is found on Solaris, HP-UX, SCO and Venix. It is the successor of a debugger called db.

Overview

The initial version was written by Stephen R. Bourne.^[2]

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 OpenSource with OpenSolaris.^[3] The Solaris kernel debugger kadb that was introduced with SunOS-3.5 (1986) is a minor variant of adb.

References

^ adb(1) – Version 7 Unix Programmer's Manual
^ McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 (PDF) (Technical report). CSTR. Bell Labs. 139. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-07-30.
^ "Solaris performance and tools DTrace and MDB techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris 0131568191, 9780131568198". dokumen.pub. Retrieved 2023-06-06.