From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:56:25 -1000 From: Tim Newsham To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] debugging p9p threads question In-Reply-To: <60a3e97cf80bd30d853c1791a7f4ee6f@9netics.com> Message-ID: References: <60a3e97cf80bd30d853c1791a7f4ee6f@9netics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Topicbox-Message-UUID: 72a21a52-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > they're not universal; e.g. try to do Windows driver debugging with > Visual Studio. Guess what works? printing to the console. Also windbg. So much for the IDE. > Acid is about the best idea I've seen. I'm a bit fond of using /proc for debugging. The fact that all you need to debug the kernel is provide a /proc shim is pretty nifty. Its so obvious -- provide a single uniform interface for doing a task and reuse it where ever needed. Why doesn't everyone do it? Tim Newsham http://www.lava.net/~newsham/