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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:57:54 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: truss, trace ??
Message-ID:  <199612072157.WAA23260@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612051010.CAA28246@freefall.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Dec 5, 96 09:09:47 pm"

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As Darren Reed wrote:

> > Is there a comparable program for freebsd?
> 
> Be nice if there was an option for it to output (immeadiately) to stdout
> rather than ktrace.out.

I'm afraid that the kernel risks to stall if you get it to write the
trace into a FIFO.  But perhaps it's not too difficult to have
kdump(8) doing some `tail -f' like magic?  This should effectively
yield you a similar behaviour.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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