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> Maybe EBPF is in that vein? Not just that :) It was "inspired by". Well, it's the same idea. > The notion of "pausing" the system to step through things in
by crabbone 4y ago
> Maybe EBPF is in that vein?
Not just that :) It was "inspired by". Well, it's the same idea.
> The notion of "pausing" the system to step through things interactively was usually untenable.
That's not what EBPF would be used for in such a system. You'd write a bit of code that can be loaded into a running program and executed as a particular condition occurs. Like how you can attach some code to evaluate on a breakpoint in many other debuggers.