/debug

[dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe]

In article <9103192219.AA00700 at uzi.mit.edu> eugholz at UZI.MIT.EDU (Eugene Gholz) writes:
>I'm a little confused about what the directory /debug is for -- or, more
>to the point, how it is used.  

think of "/debug" as a "ghost" "filesystem".  it is NOT a filesystem 
according to that word's techincal definition.  refer to the DBG(4)
to get the bottom-line low-down on this.  /debug is used, among other
things to provide handles to the process id's currently running that
the debuggers can lock onto.

DESCRIPTION
    The debug file system, normally mounted under /debug, provides an
    interface to running processes that may be used by debuggers such as dbx...

think of it as a representation of the swap space.

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