Re: debugging tools

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_tislabs.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:08:07 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Conan Callen wrote:

> I want to start stepping through the selinux / lsm code so I can see what
> is happening. Does anyone have any recomendations on kernel debugging
> tools for doing this? I've been using vstudio on windows for years and the
> windows sdk debugger for working with kernel code. So far the only
> tool used on linux are emacs and vi ;)

Is this just a learning exercise or have you encountered a bug that you want to track down? If you really want some kind of kernel debugger, you might try the SGI kGDB (see http://kgdb.sourceforge.net).

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Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
ssmalley@nai.com




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