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Date:      Mon, 9 Dec 1996 00:42:31 +1100 (EDT)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        proff@suburbia.net
Cc:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: truss, trace ??
Message-ID:  <199612081343.FAA09344@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19961208072846.9917.qmail@suburbia.net> from "proff@suburbia.net" at Dec 8, 96 06:28:46 pm

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In some mail from proff@suburbia.net, sie said:
> 
> > > > 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.
> 
> ktrace ./foo & kdump -l

and make sure you don't fill your filesystem....

Darren



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