Subject: Re: ddb and remote gdb
To: Kamal Prasad <kamalpr@yahoo.com>
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/30/2002 16:16:12
i thought that booting a kernel with kgdb does not wait for a
client unless the -d option is supplied and that should a panic
occur later, it will wait for a client at that time.

Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:13:30PM -0700, Kamal Prasad:
> if this is true, then why bother to have seperate
> #ifdefs for DDB and KGDB? or why have the kgdb_stub.c
> at all? am I missing something here?
> thanks
> -kamal
> 
> --- Michael Core <520079546242-0001@t-online.de>
> wrote:
> > If you compile the kernel with DDB and set your
> > console to ttyXX in
> > /etc/ttys the system should behave as you described.
> > Though I'm not sure
> > whether this works during booting.
> > 
> > Michael
> 
> 
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