Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgrun can now reports fgfs failures

[John D. <js...@av...>]

On 04/27/2008 04:11 AM, Frederic Bouvier wrote:

> I mean "a process ( fgrun ) acting as a debugger and detecting failure 
> of a monitored process ( fgfs ) and then generating a meaningful error 
> report"

If you want a process that acts as a debugger, why not use a debugger?

> Of course, if someone knows how to do it in Linux, I will be more than 
> happy to integrate it.

On Linux, the options include:
 
  A) The super-easy way to do it is to have fgrun invoke gdb,
     and then tell gdb to invoke fgfs.

  B) The fancy way to do it is using libgdb
     http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/libgdb/libgdb.html