Re: /proc and debuggers

[nick@nsis.cl.nec.co.jp (Gavin Thomas Nicol) writes:]

>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?

If this /proc is anything like the one from UNIX V.4, it is a real
morass of ioctl()'s of all sorts. Plan9's is quite a bit better,
although you can tell that I didn't agree with them about the ctl/
and data/ thing, nor do I believe that kernels should understand
a.out formats. The /proc server could synthesize such a thing, but
at a loss of portability.

                                                Andy
Received on Mon Nov 29 15:40:07 1993