About the CLI Prompt

The appearance of the CLI prompt lets you know that the CLI is ready to accept a command. This prompt lists the current focus, and then displays a greater-than symbol (>) and a blank space. (The current focus is the processes and threads to which the next command applies.) For example:

d1.<>

The current focus is the default set for each command, focusing on the first user thread in process 1.

g2.3>

The current focus is process 2, thread 3; commands act on the entire group.

t1.7>

The current focus is thread 7 of process 1.

gW3.>

The current focus is all worker threads in the control group that contains process 3.

p3/3

The current focus is all processes in process 3, group 3.

You can change the prompt’s appearance by using the dset command to set the PROMPT state variable; for example:

dset PROMPT "Kill this bug! > "