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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: truss says null()
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Kai Mosebach wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> could anyone give me a hint what this program might be doing ?
> 
> regards Kai
> 
> [root@devil:/usr/sapdb/src/FreeBSD] # truss -p 96257
> 
> (null)()                                         = 383 (0x17f)
> kse_release(0x87cbfb4)                           = 383 (0x17f)
> kse_release(0x87cbfb4)                           = 383 (0x17f)
[ ... ]

The KSEs (their appear to be at least 3 of them)
are waiting for work.  The lone kse_wakeup() is
trying to wake one up, but it doesn't appear to
be woken at least in this snippet.  The parameter
to kse_release() and kse_wakeup() is the address
of the KSE's mailbox (each KSE has one mailbox).

I don't know what the (null)'s are.  What does
ktrace show?

-- 
Dan Eischen