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Re: Integrate BLCR to GDB
- From: Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>
- To: Zhiyong <zhiyong dot wang at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:00:15 -0700
- Subject: Re: Integrate BLCR to GDB
- References: <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?