Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262565AbUCCTns (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:43:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262568AbUCCTn2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:43:28 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:21183 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262567AbUCCTnV (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:43:21 -0500 To: Billy Rose Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel mode console References: <200403022152.06950.billyrose@cox-internet.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> From: Andi Kleen Date: 03 Mar 2004 18:18:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200403022152.06950.billyrose@cox-internet.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 918 Lines: 14 Billy Rose 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 - 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/