/proc and debuggers

Rob mentioned that gdb knows about /proc file systems. I have no idea
about what format it expects. Rob, could you please send out a bit
more info?

>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
>the kernel should offer a process-status syscall, and a debugger syscall.
>These are binary interfaces, not messaging, with no insulation from the
>endianness of the machine or such. The /proc server, then, drives this
>binary interface in one direction, and serves connections out to the
>rest of the world in the other direction. He provides a machine-independent
>interface, handles string massaging, byte swapping, and so forth.

I wonder whether /proc should be global or per-user? Anyway, I agree
with the basic outline above. I guess this could also be used for ps
like commands?

Coding has started on MADO. I'm going to write an X based library that
emulates bitblt calls, and then write many parts of MADO using that
(in particular, window redrawing etc).

If anyone knows a graphics guru who has time to kill writing wide-line
support etc. let me know!
Received on Mon Nov 29 15:36:27 1993