ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun

Post by delaminator » Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 9:11 PM UTC

quantummagic wrote: post #10

delaminator wrote: post #7

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It’s a terrible shame Linux is still a 1970s program. Plan 9’s debugger Acid can attach to a running kernel on a remote machine and debug it.

> It’s a terrible shame Linux is still a 1970s program. This is a needlessly snide and inaccurate characterization. > Plan 9’s debugger Acid can attach to a running kernel on a remote machine and debug it. KGDB over Ethernet does the same on Linux.

Post by delaminator » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 7:21 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #12

delaminator wrote: post #11

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Emulating a serial terminal emulating a teletypewriter emulating a punch card system.

If it works what do I care?

Post by delaminator » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 8:58 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #14

delaminator wrote: post #13

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Because making it work is burdensome and writing programs that interact with it even more so. I'm guessing you've never tried to write a terminal rendering program. The hoops you hav to jump through to get vi to switch into a blank screen and then drop back and re-render your previous terminal. Behaviour differences on some terminals when you run man and the previous output is simply cleared or the man page is printe…

Ok, but what does this have to do with kernel debugging?