From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4947 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2008 16:29:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 4904 invoked by uid 367); 2 Apr 2008 16:28:59 -0000 Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:29:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20080402162859.4888.qmail@sourceware.org> From: cagney@sourceware.org To: frysk-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [SCM] master: Merge in NEWS file. X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master X-Git-Reftype: branch X-Git-Oldrev: 67ca0747166b7e823d4f9f2f1b8f581c01be2735 X-Git-Newrev: 21e0b3aa7264d3aab652e4a59e804d4114235b1c Mailing-List: contact frysk-cvs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: frysk-cvs-owner@sourceware.org Reply-To: frysk@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q2/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 The branch, master has been updated via 21e0b3aa7264d3aab652e4a59e804d4114235b1c (commit) via 72f2cd3e8b912a1c8cf490bc40a38325d4c131c1 (commit) from 67ca0747166b7e823d4f9f2f1b8f581c01be2735 (commit) Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have not appeared on any other notification email. - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 21e0b3aa7264d3aab652e4a59e804d4114235b1c Merge: 72f2cd3e8b912a1c8cf490bc40a38325d4c131c1 67ca0747166b7e823d4f9f2f1b8f581c01be2735 Author: Andrew Cagney Date: Wed Apr 2 12:27:30 2008 -0400 Merge in NEWS file. commit 72f2cd3e8b912a1c8cf490bc40a38325d4c131c1 Author: Andrew Cagney Date: Wed Apr 2 12:26:33 2008 -0400 frysk-top/ChangeLog 2008-04-02 Andrew Cagney * NEWS: Seed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: NEWS | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ frysk-top/ChangeLog | 4 +++ 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 NEWS First 500 lines of diff: diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ab8e5e --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ + + Frysk + ----- + + http://sourceware.org/frysk/ + +Frysk is an execution-analysis technology being developed using Java +and C++. It is aimed at providing developers and system +administrators with the ability to examine and analyze multi-host, +multi-process, and multi-threaded systems while they are running. + + +Release 0.2, 2008-04-02: + +This initial release of frysk includes: + +-> command line utilities: + + fauxv - print the auxiliary vector (new) + fcatch - catch and print the stack of a crashing process + fcore - extract a core file from a running process (faster, more correct) + fdebuginfo - list debug-info requirements of a process (new) + fdebugrpm - install debug-info requirements of a process (new) + ferror - catch and back-trace error calls (new) + fexe - print the executable path + fmaps - print the address map (new) + fstack - print each thread's stack (supports in-line back-traces) + fstep - single-step a process + ftrace - trace a processes system and (new) library calls + + Known limitations: large resident set size; large executable size. + +-> Prototype command line debugger: fhpd + + For single threaded programs, FHPD can: print the value, type, and + location, and modify the value of, arbitrarily located variable + (complex DWARF location expressions); correctly handle very-large + integers (>64-bit) and large floats (80-bit); display in-line + information in back-traces; control processes with the commands + load, core, dump, run, step, break, go, detach, kill, list, focus. + + In addition to the command-line utility restrictions, the HPD has + the following known limitations: disassembler missing; limited + type-cast support in expressions; limited multi-thread support. + +-> Prototype visual debugging and monitoring tool (frysk) + + Known limitations: work-flow limited to live processes (examining + core files, or creating processes is possible but very + non-intuitive). + +-> Prototype test-suite (funit) + + Known limitations: test that are working in-tree fail when + installed. + +-- diff --git a/frysk-top/ChangeLog b/frysk-top/ChangeLog index 3f68aee..206efa1 100644 --- a/frysk-top/ChangeLog +++ b/frysk-top/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2008-04-02 Andrew Cagney + + * NEWS: Seed. + 2008-03-31 Andrew Cagney * Makefile.am (upload-manpages): Explicitly depend on hooks/post-receive -- frysk system monitor/debugger