Design and implementation of a remote debugger for concurrent debugging of multiple processes in embedded linux systems

Jung Hee Kim, Hyun Chul Sim, Yong Hyeog Kang, Young Ik Eom

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Abstract

In the embedded software development environments, developers can concurrently debug a running process and its child processes only by using multiple gdbs and gdbservers. But it needs additional coding and messy works of activating additional gdb and gdbserver for each created process. In this paper, we propose an efficient mechanism for concurrent debugging of multiple remote processes in the embedded system environments by using the library wrapping mechanism without Linux kernel modification. Through the experimentation of debugging two processes communicating by an unnamed pipe in the target system, we show that our proposed debugging mechanism is easier and more efficient than preexisting mechanisms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsHai Jin, Hao Chen, Guang R. Gao, Zhiwei Xu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages280-283
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)3540233881, 9783540233886
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3222
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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