Re: debugger fix

[Mike McCormack]

Hi John,

As i understand, Alexandre wants to get rid of the service thread
completely. He rejected an async i/o patch of mine that used the
service thread on these grounds.

The server would also need to wait on the service thread somehow...
something else that might be frowned upon.

i'm pretty sure that currently there isn't any way to do this except
use the service thread though :-(

Perhaps it'd be nice to tie up all these memory issues with some kind
of kernel patch... a way to read/write and generally mess with another
process's memory that was broader and more efficient that p-trace.

Mike
> Is there any reason _not_ to use the service
> thread of the target process to perform cross-process ?
> virtualAlloc/Protect etc?
>
> Jon

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debugger fix

[Jon Griffiths]

Hi,
> Perhaps it'd be nice to tie up all these memory issues with some kind
> of kernel patch... a way to read/write and generally mess with another
> process's memory that was broader and more efficient that p-trace.

Something like that would be great for Linux, not sure how it could work with 
closed unices though. I've been trying to figure out the server and it does't 
look like anything currently implemented does anything like I wanted to do, 
so you're right, it probably wouldn't get accepted even if it could be used.

Maybe I'll find something else to dabble with for now :-/

Cheers,
Jon