From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 12 01:50:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id BAA28336 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 01:50:31 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA28324 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 01:50:28 -0800 Received: from rks32.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com (5.65/10Aug94) id AA13494; Thu, 12 Jan 95 01:47:45 -0800 Received: by rks32.pcs.dec.com (Smail3.1.27.1 #16) id m0rSLxf-0005M7C; Thu, 12 Jan 95 10:36 MEZ Message-Id: Date: Thu, 12 Jan 95 10:36 MEZ From: garyj@rks32.pcs.dec.com (Gary Jennejohn) To: hackers%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gj@pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com Subject: using procfs for debugging -------- I never saw this come back from hackers, so I'm sending it again. > I found my old kernel tree that allowed me to control processes using > procfs (being able to do things like have a process stop on events, and get > information about said stopping). > This is a real old tree -- I don't know how well it would go into 2.x... > If someone is willing to port gdb to our procfs, I'd be delighted to work > with you on it... > Sean. Well, since I added attach/detach to gdb using procfs, I'd be more than willing to make a stab at this. BTW J"org, I was planning to try and hack your mods into gdb-4.13 for dyadic frames, but if you _really_ want to do it....:-) Gary J.