The goal of the Frysk project is to create an intelligent, distributed, always-on system-monitoring and debugging tool. Frysk will allow GNU/Linux developers and system administrators: to monitor running processes and threads (including creation and destruction events); to monitor the use of locking primitives; to expose deadlocks, to gather data. Users debug any given process by either choosing it from a list or by accepting Frysk's offer to open a source code or other window on a process that is in the process of crashing or that has been misbehaving in certain user-definable ways.

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