From 49a086299e047b18280457b654790ef4a2e5abfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:58:35 +0100 Subject: Revert "rename open_issues.mdwn to service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663.mdwn" This reverts commit 95878586ec7611791f4001a4ee17abf943fae3c1. --- open_issues/debugging.mdwn | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+) create mode 100644 open_issues/debugging.mdwn (limited to 'open_issues/debugging.mdwn') diff --git a/open_issues/debugging.mdwn b/open_issues/debugging.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..107acbf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/debugging.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + + +# Existing + +We have debugging infrastructure. For example: + + * [[GDB]] + + * [[GNU Mach debugging|microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging]] + + * [[GNU Hurd debugging|hurd/debugging]], including + [[hurd/debugging/rpctrace]], and more. + + +# To Do + + * [[glibc]]'s sotruss + + * [[ltrace]] + + * [[latrace]] + + * [[profiling]] + + * *Checkpoint/restart allows the state of a set of processes to be saved to + persistent storage, then restarted at some future time* -- quoting from + Jonathan Corbet's [2010 Linux Kernel Summit + report](http://lwn.net/Articles/412749/). + + This is surely a very useful facility to have for reproducing failures, for + example. But on the other hand it's questionable how it can help with + debugging failures in [[GNU Hurd server|hurd/translator]]s' interactions, + as their state is typically spread between several processes. + + Continues: , which introduces + . + + * [[crash_server}}, [[GDB_gcore]], + + + * [[community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking]] + + * , or -- + just two examples; there's a lot of such stuff for Linux. + + * [[debugging_gnumach_startup_QEMU_GDB]] -- cgit v1.2.3