Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262343AbUCCDx4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:53:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262345AbUCCDx4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:53:56 -0500 Received: from fe3-cox.cox-internet.com ([66.76.2.40]:54702 "EHLO fe3.cox-internet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262343AbUCCDxz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:53:55 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Billy Rose To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: kernel mode console Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:52:06 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200403022152.06950.billyrose@cox-internet.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 15 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? ------------------- . ~billyrose/make - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/