In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nate Lawson  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, John Polstra wrote:
> > 
> > BSD/OS has a little state machine in its sio driver which notices
> > if something looking like a kgdb packet comes in and interrupts
> > the target automatically.  It's extremely handy.  You just type
> > "target remote /dev/tty00" into kgdb and the target breaks into the
> > debugger -- no muss, no fuss.  I wish we had this feature too.  It
> > should obviously be under the control of a sysctl to protect against
> > accidental entry into the debugger.
> > 
> > Another nice thing about BSD/OS is that when you exit kgdb, the target
> > OS automatically starts running again.  So you can enter and exit the
> > debugger painlessly, as many times as you'd like.
> 
> Any chance of getting that from BSD/OS?  If not, perhaps we could
> reimplement.

We used to have the BSD/OS sources on-line, and we had carte blanche
to take things from them and put them into FreeBSD.  I don't know
what the situation is now.

John
-- 
  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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