Better jmap/jsadebugd/etc support on WinNT post-Mustang?
Jdk6 has basic WinNT support for the command-line diagnostic tools. While a nice improvement over Jdk5, these's still a lot of nice stuff missing that *is* available to the other platforms.
While I realize that most of these utilities are 'unsupported', I'm curious about the reasons from this dichotomy. Is there some intristic handicap of WinNT that prevents it supporting the full gamut of jmap/jinfo etc?
1) For instance, "jsadebugd" appears like a regular RMI service, providing a pass-through to the Attach API. What would prevent it from running on WinNT?
2) As another example, "jmap" does not support "-finalizerinfo" or "-permstat" on WinNT. Not knowing better, I would say that once the connection to VM is made, this information should be queried in the same manner as on the other platforms. Is there some restriction in the Win32 JMV that makes this impossible/hard?
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