On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 November 1999 at 13:36:56 -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > Zhihui Zhang writes:
> >> Thanks for your reply. What confuses me is that when I use commands "gdb"
> >> (enter remote protocol mode) and "step" on the target machine, the
> >> debugging machine takes control (it executes "target remote /dev/cuaa1").
> >> In this case, how can I run anything on the target machine to trigger a
> >> panic?
> >
> > I'm not sure if this answers your question, but the command
> >
> > sysctl -w debug.cebugger=1
> >
> > will cause the kernel to stop and return your gdb prompt.
> > Then you could call the function panic() directly if you wanted.
>
> Take a look at /usr/src/sys/modules/vinum/.gdbinit.kernel. There's
> some almost undocumented stuff in there, including a macro called
> ddb. Call it from gdb and it'll switch back to ddb.
>
> Greg
> --
Thanks! I will certainly look into them. In the same time, I add a
sysctl variable and let my program calls Debugger("some string") if that
sysctl variable is true. It seems working. I hope someone will write a
hacker's book.
-Zhihui
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