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Subject: Re: truss, trace ??
In-Reply-To: <no.id> from Darren Reed at "Dec 9, 96 00:42:31 am"
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:04:51 +1100 (EST)
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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.