From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 7 14:24:44 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA12831 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 14:24:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA12817 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 14:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA20041 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 23:24:36 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA25155 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 23:24:35 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id WAA23260 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:57:54 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612072157.WAA23260@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: truss, trace ?? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:57:54 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612051010.CAA28246@freefall.freebsd.org> from Darren Reed at "Dec 5, 96 09:09:47 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)