From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 28 23:51: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E15637B407 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:50:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id IAA16108 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:50:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f7T6orr52929 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:50:53 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:50:53 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch To: current@freebsd.org Subject: old BSD/OS binary coredumps Message-ID: <20010829085053.A52695@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After upgrading to current-2001-08-28, my old BSD/OS Netscape 3 binary no longer works. It coredumps right away at startup, before opening any window. (Running it as "netscape3 -help", where it only produces a usage message, isn't affected.) Now the interesting part: i wanted to get an idea why this happened, and ran it through ktrace. Voila, that still works! Likewise when running through truss. Does anybody have an idea what might have changed, and why's that odd behaviour with the syscall tracers? -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message