> If the overall complaint is that it's not built into the OS, well, welcome to UNIX, island of isolated, uncooperative, and sometimes broken toys.
> I like UNIX, don't get me wrong, but some of the API design is truly appalling.
I guess this is time for my annual post on Plan 9, which is basically Unix Done Right™. It really does feel like a coherent operating system, where all the parts fit together, feel well-thought-out and are well-finished. Every time I play with it (and really, at this point that's most of what it's good for) I want to cry at the lost potential. In that way, it's like SmallTalk or Lisp: something better, ignored by the world.
Sadly, while it offered built-in stack unwinding, it looks like the functions involved were different depending on RISC vs. CISC, and they could unwind at most 40 levels deep at a time (!): http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/debugger
> I like UNIX, don't get me wrong, but some of the API design is truly appalling.
I guess this is time for my annual post on Plan 9, which is basically Unix Done Right™. It really does feel like a coherent operating system, where all the parts fit together, feel well-thought-out and are well-finished. Every time I play with it (and really, at this point that's most of what it's good for) I want to cry at the lost potential. In that way, it's like SmallTalk or Lisp: something better, ignored by the world.
Sadly, while it offered built-in stack unwinding, it looks like the functions involved were different depending on RISC vs. CISC, and they could unwind at most 40 levels deep at a time (!): http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/debugger