From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Zhiyong <zhiyong.wang@gmail.com>
Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Integrate BLCR to GDB
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DA5F4F.9070007@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22891922.post@talk.nabble.com>
Zhiyong wrote:
> Hi,
> If my understanding is correct, current gdb checkpoint/restart is using
> fork() and does not support multi-threading.
>
> I am interested to know if someone has done some work to integrate BLCR
> (Berkely Lab Checkpoint/Restart ,
> https://ftg.lbl.gov/CheckpointRestart/CheckpointRestart.shtml) into gdb?
>
> As a standalone, BLCR is quite helpful in certain debugging scenarios. But
> it is a bit hard to use with gdb , i.e. breakpoints can not be saved and
> restart is not convienent to stop at certain point etc.
>
> BLCR's limitation is it is only for Linux x86 and x86_64. It also needs to
> load kernel modules which may or may not be an issue. It is not targeting
> debugging but rather process management/fault tolerance.
Sounds like a very interesting project.
Would you be interested in spearheading it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-06 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-05 18:22 Zhiyong
2009-04-06 20:10 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2009-04-06 21:47 ` Zhiyong
2009-04-06 22:35 ` Michael Snyder
2009-04-06 22:45 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-04-06 23:37 ` Zhiyong
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