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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: James Raynard <fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: ktrace [Was: 2.2-960612-SNAP resolver problems]
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James Raynard writes:
>Indeed. Apart from volume of output, is there any particular reason
>why ktrace writes to a file which kdump reads in, as opposed to using
>a pipe? Particularly as the first thing kdump does is 
>freopen(tracefile, "r", stdin)!

Hm, try `ktrace -f /dev/stdout | kdump -f /dev/stdin'

Wolfram