From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 22:43:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9A716A402; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:43:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7007D13C487; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:43:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B0820A2; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:43:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: 0.0/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on tim.des.no Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8AE20A1; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:43:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 65AF3A10AC; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:43:13 +0200 (CEST) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Alfred Perlstein References: <200704100403.l3A43ZnL057659@repoman.freebsd.org> <88607eb20704101217x4e3c81f9xf914f7da7714daf8@mail.gmail.com> <20070411195935.GA2382@elvis.mu.org> <88607eb20704111346q5c463b60w2547084231a11227@mail.gmail.com> <20070411220228.GG2382@elvis.mu.org> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:43:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070411220228.GG2382@elvis.mu.org> (Alfred Perlstein's message of "Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:02:28 -0700") Message-ID: <86abxemt1a.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Ed Maste , cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI , cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/truss Makefile amd64-fbsd.c extern.h i386-fbsd.c i386-linux.c ia64-fbsd.c main.c powerpc-fbsd.c setup.c sparc64-fbsd.c syscall.h syscalls.c truss.1 truss.h X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:43:17 -0000 Alfred Perlstein writes: > Ed Maste [070411 13:46] wrote: > > Currently, without the -s option the core produced by gcore is > > inconsistent, and it's that behaviour that would be eliminated with my > > change. Do you actually have a use for inconsistent core files? > Not so much as a need for an inconsistent core so much as a need > for a core without halting the program for the time it takes to > dump core. What Ed is trying to tell you is that the result will be a useless core file. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no