From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21712 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2008 13:14:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 21704 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jul 2008 13:14:26 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_39,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; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:14:09 +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 m6ADE799006668 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:14:07 -0400 Received: from pobox-2.corp.redhat.com (pobox-2.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.15]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6ADE7GY007635 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:14:07 -0400 Received: from dhcp-215.hsv.redhat.com (dhcp-215.hsv.redhat.com [172.16.17.215]) by pobox-2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6ADE6eo004580 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:14:06 -0400 Message-ID: <48760B1E.3060709@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:14:00 -0000 From: Rick Moseley User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: frysk Subject: Re: Changes References: <1215663421.5233.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4875A151.1000200@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4875A151.1000200@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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-q3/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 Sami Wagiaalla wrote: > >>> In particular I think Red Hat is not going to pursue Frysk's current >>> monitoring and tracing goals, or the existing GUI. >> >> Perhaps this can be left as a dormant goal, to be revisited when a >> working solution is at hand? >> >> A monitoring and tracing tool would be very useful. >> > > Ditto. I will bring it up again when the time is right. > > Agreed too. The ability to catch a task as it is abnormally terminating and bring up the debugger is a powerful thing IMHO. I don't see any need here to involve another app(Systemtap has been mentioned) to perform this feature. I don't remember this being too difficult in Frysk(although I am not the one that implemented it.)