Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: We are as good as our tools | Date | Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:37:47 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> said:
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> BTW, tools are really nice, but I wouldn't call conventional debuggers > a-la [asg]db good ones. I've been _very_ impressed by Acid - after gdb it > feels like a switch from MCR to sh. Small core providing a language with > enough primitives to build the rest of debugger + library + ability to > write new functions. _That_ would be very useful thing to have - you are > not limited to stepping/poking anymore and can actually write functions > that check state consistency/get stats/whatever and use them. I would > really recommend everyone involved in that thread look through the > papers on this thing (USENIX '94; available online on the > plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/) and look at it in work. Something similar > could be really useful - unlike gbd it allows to look at the large picture > without wearing your fingers to bones. Essentially, Acid libraries can be > used as documentation on the state - very expressive beast.
Is this animal available in source together with plan9? Could it be adapted for use on more conventional systems (licence and otehrwise)? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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