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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: kernel mode console
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 03:57:24 +0000 (UTC)
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Followup to:  <200403022152.06950.billyrose@cox-internet.com>
By author:    Billy Rose <billyrose@cox-internet.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> 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?
> 

Google(kgdb).

	-hpa
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