From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29681 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2008 20:33:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 29669 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Apr 2008 20:33:50 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:33:20 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m34KXINX026691 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:33:18 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m34KXGw6025284 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:33:17 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (sebastian-int.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.221]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m34KXGl1031921 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:33:16 -0400 Message-ID: <47F6908B.1010807@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:12:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: frysk Subject: Announcing frysk 0.2.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.52.254 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact frysk-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: frysk-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q2/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 Announcing Frysk 0.2.1 ---------------------- http://sourceware.org/frysk/ Frysk is a debugging and monitoring framework 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. We, that is, Adam Jocksch, Alexandre Oliva, Andrew Cagney, Carlos Eduardo Seo, Chris Moller, Diego Novillo, Elena Zannoni, Frank Ch. Eigler, Igor Foox, Ivan Pantuyev, Jan Kratochvil, Jeff Johnston, Jose Flavio Paulino, Kris Van Hees, Len DiMaggio, Mark Wielaard, Mike Behm, Mike Cvet, Nurdin Premji, Petr Machata, Phil Muldoon, Richard Henderson, Rick Moseley, Sami Wagiaalla, Stan Cox, Stepan Kasal, Tarun Khanna, Teresa Thomas, Thomas Gerard, Tim Moore, Tom Tromey, Wu Zhou, Yao Qi, Yong Zheng, and Zhao Shujing are pleased to announce our first official release of Frysk, version 0.2.1. This initial release 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: some test that are working in-tree fail when installed. To download this release, go to: ftp://sourceware.org/pub/frysk/frysk-0.2.1.tar.bz2 or check for an update in your local GNU/Linux distro. Andrew 2008-04-04