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