Hi - On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:17:42AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> [...] Right, from my POV something like utrace is desirable, since > its basically a huge multiplexer for the debugger state, eventually > allowing us to have multiple debuggers attached to the same process. > [...] Right. > Then there is this little thing called frysk which uses it, no idea > what kind of kernel space that needs, nor where it lives -- or for > that matter, wth it really does ;-) Frysk was to be a first user of such an improved ptrace(2) API in order to do the sort of background / multiply-connected debugging, but that project has been on indefinite hold for about a year. Instead, there are experiments under way to extend gdb's backend for that capability. - FChE