Re: Various things

       From: Andrew Valencia <vandys@cisco.com>
       Subject: Re: Various things

> >Having a debugger will be a big help. One idea I liked a lot in plan9
> >was the /proc file system. For those who don't know what it is, it's a
> >filesystem containing stuff related to the processes. Use /proc, you
> >can read process memory, set breakpoints, etc. etc. From what I've
>
> I've been thinking about /proc, and I think I am starting to get a clue
> how to do it. Rather than dump all that code into the kernel, I think

  GDB knows how to talk use a /proc for it's target end. The other thing would
be to look at the new gdbserver too. If you get /proc working, I can take a
shot at seeing how GDB does under VSTa. Should be a fun project. :-)

        - rob -
Received on Mon Nov 29 10:00:14 1993