Inspect Manual

Introduction
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The Inspect Process
Figure 1-1 presents a conceptual overview of these component processes and their
interaction.
The Inspect Process
An Inspect process provides the terminal interface through which you interact with the
Inspect debugger. The other functions of an Inspect process include:
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Retrieving source code from source files.
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Retrieving machine code from program files.
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Retrieving symbol information from program files.
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Communicating with DMON, making execution control and program data requests.
IMON starts an Inspect process on the home terminal of a process for which a
debugging event occurs or on which a debug request is issued, or if you enter the
command interpreter Inspect command. Note that IMON does not start Inspect, if you
enter the command interpreter Inspect command, for example RUN INSPECT and
INSPECT.
The IMON Process Pair
The IMON process runs as a fault-tolerant process pair named $IMON. Your system
manager starts IMON at the same time as the operating system, and determines what
processors run IMON. The functions of IMON include:
Figure 1-1. Inspect Components
$DM00
$DM01
$DM15
INSPECT
INSPECT
\SYS01
CPU00
CPU01
CPU15
$IMON
INSPECT
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