[lldb-dev] Adding support for FreeBSD kernel coredumps (and live memory lookup)

[Michał Górny via lldb-dev]

On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 14:28 +0100, Pavel Labath wrote:
> The live kernel debugging sounds... scary. Can you explain how would 
> this actually work? Like, what would be the supported operations? I 
> presume you won't be able to actually "stop" the kernel, but what will 
> you actually be able to do?
> 

Yes, it is scary.  No, the system doesn't stop -- it's just a racy way
to read and write kernel memory.  I don't think it's used often but I've
been told that sometimes it can be very helpful in debugging annoying
non-crash bugs, especially if they're hard to reproduce.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny