Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:04:51 +1100 (EST)
From:      proff@suburbia.net
To:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: truss, trace ??
Message-ID:  <19961208140451.3454.qmail@suburbia.net>
In-Reply-To: <no.id> from Darren Reed at "Dec 9, 96 00:42:31 am"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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

Yeah, the cyclic file type is (stupidly) missing from unix.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19961208140451.3454.qmail>