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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kernel debugger Date: 18 Jul 1996 11:24:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4sl6u8$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4sjuil$215@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de (Martin v.Loewis) wrote: > Is there a kernel debugger available for FreeBSD 2.1R? The kernel seems > to support kadb, kgdb, and ddb. There is a man page for ddb. I could not > find any of these tools, though. > If there is, does it support > - local debugging > - symbolic debugging > - breakpoints and single stepping Read the section about kernel debugging in the handbook. It sheds a light on these questions, and explains the relative merits of ddb and kgdb (which are both available, but are not seperate commands). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)