Re: [Tux3] Tux3 report: A Golden Copy

From: Justin P. Mattock
Date: Wed Dec 31 2008 - 03:15:23 EST


Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 23:34, sniper wrote:
Great, I have mounted tux3 filesystem under UML with stuffs in this mail,
but I still can't debug it with gdb. Anyone gives me suggestion?

You just have to give a "cont" command a bunch of times and you will
eventually get to a command prompt. The reason for this is, uml uses
the segfault interrupt as part of its machine simulation, and there
is no exsiting way for uml and gdb to communicate in such a way that
uml can recognize that the interrupt came from its own code and filter
it.

Jeff Dike is the expert on this, and Daniel Jacobowitz is the expert
on the gdb side. Fixing this would be a big effort, getting two complex
systems to cooperate better, with nontrivial API issues to solve. But
UML is such a wonderful kernel development tool that it might be worth
the effort.

In the mean time, you could just tell gdb to mask off all segfaults,
but would be kind of problematic for debugging.

Regards,

Daniel
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Hmm.. seems like a redundancy;
Anyways I looked at you're site, but am still
confused at what tux3 is: what is tux3?
(at first I thought it was a video game, but was wrong);
can I use tux3 to secure a linux system or is it for
something else?

regards;

Justin P. Mattock

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