Re: remote debugging stubs

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:02:15PM +0100, Greg Buchholz wrote:
> 
>       Has anyone out there ever used a serial console for debugging a
> hurd translator at boot time?  I'm looking for the gdb debug stub
> functions (getDebugChar, exceptionHandler, etc) that can be used before
> the hurd is up and running (and after Mach boots).  Specifically, I want
> to attach to an iso9660fs translator setup as a bootstrap filesystem.  If
> anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.

The way you'd normally do that is using the "boot" command and booting a
second Hurd system in parallel to the first one.  Then you can attach gdb to
the processes inside the second Hurd.

Thanks,
Marcus

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