At 03:22 PM 8/18/2001 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:

>i didn't see any references to support debugging an external perl
>process. this should be designed in from the beginning, so the debugger
>API can be designed to work locally and over a pipe. the pipe can
>support an rpc or message interface which is wrapped by the shared
>debugger API.

Good point. What, if anything, is needed? Is forcing the debugger to talk 
through STDDEBUG enough? Should we always listen (or listen when the 
appropriate flag's set on the command line) on some port/pipe/doodad and 
set a flag to kick into the remote debugger if someone connects to it?

                                        Dan

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