From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 3 17:27:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90B014E96 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from p27-ts5.syd2.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA31402; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:32:48 +1100 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:27:34 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YAJKHT (Yet a Junior kernel hacker task) In-Reply-To: <32336.941655423@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > About the only place which is sacred is the gdb-stubs, please be > aware that particular isolation requirements apply to that code > which make it un-smart to rely on library functions. (that is why > the gdb-stubs even come with their own strlen(3) & strcat(3) The same applies to ddb and everything else that is called before vm is initialised. gdb is just less chummy with the "library" than ddb. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message