> Most people would not debug the software anyway. Under Linux, an strace is > often all you need.
If we had an rpctrace program, that would probably be all people often needed too. > But wouldn't I need another terminal to attach a debugger from the parent > Hurd? How do I observer the sub Hurd while it is running? I only havea > single terminal, no network but PPP. Virtual Consoles could help :) There are a couple of things you can do. Even without an actual network, you can do "telnet localhost" to get another shell on a pty, and run boot from there. Also, a while ago I added the --isig option to boot; with that, boot leaves the terminal in ISIG mode so you can use ^C or ^Z et al to suspend boot. (Use ^V ^C to get a ^C through to the subhurd console.) You should probably bg boot after suspending it so that the subhurd's attempt to access devices and such that goes through boot won't wedge.
