Re: Tornado

[winans@aps.anl.gov]

>CEBAF intends to buy Tornado.  One major concern we have is that the
>debugger daemon has no access controls, which effectively means that
>someone could write software to manipulate an IOC without any access
>rights.  You therefore have to either secure your network, or run operational
>machines without the debugger loaded.  I think the same problem existed
>on the older daemon.

The Zeiman/Winans version of the BSP automatically suspends the
debugger daemon on vxWorks versions that we have been using for the
last 3 years.

I have found that the debuggers are not useful for the work I do
because it often involves timing of spin loops and interrupt and thread
syunchronization.  Gdb is good for single-threaded apps, not stuff like
this.  I have not looked into Tornado, yet.  B ut I do not expect
much more from it.

--John Winans