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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: truss, trace ??
To: proff@suburbia.net
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 00:42:31 +1100 (EDT)
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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