Re: Linux kdb (was Re: first thread)

[Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM>]

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> > 1. crash(1) to analyse those (dumps not humans) in 0. as well as playing
> > with live /dev/mem.
> 
> The name sounds a bit strange to me ...
Why so? crash(1) (or crash(1M) if you are pedantically ATT-ish) is a
standard UNIX command present in most UNIX variants. Therefore Linux
should have it too.

The only problem with Linux is that it is so good and flexible that things
normally done with crash in several hours, in Linux are done in seconds by
just catting some files in /proc or reading the sources... That puts
people off writing crash(1) for Linux, probably.

Regards,
Tigran.

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