Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu> writes: > [...] Since the speed of development in this area is truly glacial > at the moment and the practical advantages that i can experience > personally (directly as a Linux user and indirectly as a maintainer) > are miniscule so far, caution is warranted IMO. [...]
If the "caution" you suggest is operationally equivalent to discouraging even miniscule improvements, is it any wonder that progress is glacial? The gdbstub prototype was constructed for two reasons: to demonstrate utrace usage now, and in the future to be incrementally useful (over ptrace, by moving into fast kernel-space operations like multithreading control, gdb-tracepoint support, other stuff). #1 is about done. With respect to #2, we can certainly commit to ongoing work on improvements, provided the community shows interest and goodwill. - FChE
