Full-system Infinity preview coming up

I’ve released bits and pieces of Infinity over the past year, but nothing that really brings everything together. Right now I’m working on an initial full-system release of everything to do with Infinity so far. It’s codenamed “First Flight”, and you’ll be able to actually use it, see how everything hangs together, and generally get a better idea of what the point of it all is.

First Flight will be just enough for GDB to attach to a live process or start with a core file. “info threads” should work, “print errno” will not. First Flight will comprise:

• A new release of the note compiler I8C.
• A glibc you can git clone and build to get a libpthread.so with Infinity notes for map_lwp2thr, thr_get_info and thr_iter.
• A new release of the client library libi8x that can execute those notes.
• A libthread_db.so shim into libi8x.

The libthread_db.so shim won’t be used in future releases—they’ll have support for Infinity built into GDB—but it’ll likely remain as a nice example of how to use libi8x.

I’m targeting June 23 as the release date for First Flight. You can follow how I’m doing on the Infinity Roadmap (thank you Sergio!)