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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 1996 22:07:51 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ktrace [Was: 2.2-960612-SNAP resolver problems]
Message-ID:  <199606191207.WAA14502@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>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'

I tried it before posting :-).  ktrace(2) only works on regular files.  This
is undocumented of course.  It obviously can't work on stdout because stdout
goes away when ktrace(1) exits.

Bruce



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