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SubjectRe: kernel mode console
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Billy Rose <billyrose@cox-internet.com> writes:

> i have some bandwidth i can dedicate to writting a kernel module that provides
> a command interpreter running in kernel space (think of it as the god mode
> console in quake). the purpose for this would be primarily aimed at the
> kernel developers so they can reach in and grab variables, dump certain
> sections of memory, walk memory, dump code segments, dump processes
> (including the kernel data structures for them), anything else i/you can
> think of. is this a waste of time, or would that get used?

It sounds like you're trying to reinvent kdb, sysrq, kgdb, lcrash/crash,
gdb vmlinux /proc/vmlinux

-Andi
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