[syslinux] Dynamic debugging

[Geert Stappers]

Op 2013-07-05 om 13:59 schreef Matt Fleming:
> Folks,
> 
> I've just pushed a new feature out in 5.11-pre8 that will hopefully aid
> in debugging future issues - the ability to dynamically (at runtime)
> enable and disable debug code using the new debug.c32 module.
> 
> For instance, to turn on the dprintf() in execute(), you'd do,
> 
>     debug.c32 -e execute
> 
> then, every time a module is executed you'll see messages like,
> 
>     kernel is ls.c32, args = /  type = 7
> 
> To disable functions,
> 
>     debug.c32 -d open_file searchdir put_inode
> 
> Chances are that if you report a bug now, you'll be asked to run
> debug.c32 with a list of useful debugging functions to help narrow down
> the cause of your bug. The hope is that this will reduce debugging time,
> especially for those difficult problems that always seem to be
> environment-specific.
> 
> The majority of uses for now will be to enable dprintf() statements, but
> over time expect to see more and more integrity-checking code added to
> Syslinux, especially in the network stack where it makes sense to
> validate input data much more aggressively for debugging purposes.
> 
> My intention is to turn this feature off for releases, but depending on
> how useful it ends up being, we may keep it enabled.

Will the six point something series have this debug feature?


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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