Hey Russell, I'll have a look at those patches sometime over the next couple days and get back here.
Thanks for sharing them! Sincerely, Todd Fiala On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:56 AM, <eatnumb...@google.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I've got some preliminary but functioning work in place in order to support > self-debugging. Immediately forthcoming is two patches, summarized below, > which > implement basic support for self-debugging on Linux. I've leveraged the > ProcessMonitor architecture on Linux in order to do this, so the first > patch is > a refactor of ProcessMonitor to allow me to create a different > implementation of > it. The second patch actually fills in the self-debugging implementation. > > [PATCH 1/2] Refactor ProcessMonitor into an abstract base class. > [PATCH 2/2] Support debugging yourself on Linux. > > There's still some issues: > * I needed to disable JITLoaderGDB [1] in order to prevent lldb from > attempting > to set a breakpoint at attach. I'm also not clear on what JITLoaderGDB > does > even after perusing the code, so I'm not sure if disabling it is the > right > thing to do. > * I needed to disable LLDB copying it's stdin to it's inferior's [1] as it > would result in multiple threads reading from stdin - making it > impossible to > use the prompt. This behavior makes sense to me if the debugee is > launched > from LLDB, but I'm not clear on why LLDB attempts to do it when you've > attached to your debugee. > * "thread list" returns nothing. I think there's a larger problem here. > Needs > investigation. > > Thanks, > Russ Harmon > > [1]: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/188533a776226257206f > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev > -- Todd Fiala | Software Engineer | tfi...@google.com | 650-943-3180
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