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Alicia - Features -

Wrapper

Alicia allows you to execute "crash" commands just as if you were using crash.

Interactive Perl

You can save the result of command with perl-like fashion and to edit using the perl functions.

Scripting

Storing your process of analyzing Linux crash dump as perl script and Calling your script from command line or another script. These scripts are called 'LDAS'. LDAS is the Linux dump analysis script.

Alicia's APIs

Alicia has some functions (commands) to get particular data from Linux crash dump in order to create program easily.

kernel(address, struct name, member, type)

Returns the value of structure member.

Example:
alicia> $a = kernel '0xf46ec000','task_struct','comm','char *';
alicia> $b = kernel '0xf46ec000','task_struct','mm';

get_mem(symbol,[words))

Returns the data(words) from symbol's address.

Example:
alicia> @lists = get_mem '0xf46ec000',10;
alicia> foreach (@lists) { print "$_\n" };

get_value(symbol)
Returns the value of symbol.
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Example:
alicia> print get_value 'banner';
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get_addr(symbol)
Returns the address of symbol.
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Example:
alicia> print get_addr 'banner';
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