On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:03 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > peterz wrote: > > > Hmm,. wouldn't it make much more sense to extend the current kgdb stub > > to include userspace debugging, providing an all-in-one solution? > > I think it would be much more powerful to be able to observe the full > > software stack and not be limited by this user<->kernel barrier. > > There exist other tools for this broad a scope (systemtap being one), > and present gdb is not well suited for this. That makes this idea an > exciting potential for the future, but not a practical short-term > goal.
Who's talking short-term? And if gdb is unsuited, it'll simply have to get fixed :-)
