NeD: The Network Extensible Debugger

NeD is a debugging server with a programmable network interface. NeD is designed to be flexible and extensible enough to support a wide range of debugging needs. Debugging clients communicate with NeD by sending it programs to execute. The programming language, NeDtcl, is tcl extended with 30 debugging specific functions. NeD can be used as a traditional debugger with a textual interface, but the user would find the language cumbersome. It is designed to be convenient for communication between programs, rather than between program and user. As a demonstration of NeD's viability as a debugging server, the pdb debugger has been retargeted to use NeD as its server.