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To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: gdbstub initial code, another approach
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:38:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20100728181702.GA26678@redhat.com> (Oleg Nesterov's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:17:02 +0200")
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Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> writes:

> [...]
> 	- ugdb.c
>
> 		The kernel module which implements the basic
> 		user-space API on top of utrace. Of course,
> 		this API should be discussed.
> 	- gdbstub
>
> 		The simple user-space gdbserver written in
> 		perl which works with ugdb API.
> [...]

To the extent that the problems with an in-kernel gdbstub are
weaknesses in the protocol - or gdb's implementation thereof - how
would this split improve that situation?

- FChE