From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 23:53:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA04848 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 23:53:32 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA04836 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 23:53:26 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01292; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 08:53:22 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA16110 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 08:53:22 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA06502 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 08:47:54 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506060647.IAA06502@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Kernels, panics & the debugger To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 08:47:54 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506060440.OAA23875@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 6, 95 02:40:28 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 591 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >[debugger, but not in case of panic] > ... > This variable stops all debugger entries and crashes the system (or worse) > if a breakpoint inserted by the debugger is hit (inserting breakpoints > corrupts the code and the debugger doesn't get a chance to clean up). I'll put it into my TODO list for 2.1. > Single stepping of lcalls under X/pcvt must be verry sloow now :-). Hmm, perhaps i should give it a try? :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)