On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 16:51 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 10/06/2015 03:40 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 12:39 +0100, Wei Liu wrote: > > > > > And for the record, if my google-fu doesn't fail me, it's possible to > > > load shared library into python interpreter using "dl" module in 2.7 > > > and > > > "ctypes" module in 3.x. > > > > Possible, but not especially convenient since you need to convert the C > > prototype manually, plus the result is not necessarily very "pythonic". > > > > I could totally see why people would prefer these bindings (or an > > argument > > for us providing a ctypes based wrapper). > > How often is such a debugging interface being used? Please consider > the amount of code (my patch removed nearly 3000 lines of code!) and > the availability of the xl wrapper.
My understanding was that this was used by the "xen-bugtool" stuff in XenServer, so for actual functionality (gathering debug info) and not debugging (I supposed that the reference to being used for debugging was due to the name of the tool). Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
