Date: 30 Jan 98 05:04:24 +0530 From: "Atish" <ACHOWDHU.IN.ORACLE.COM.ofcmail@in.oracle.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Auto-reply: Re: TRUSS Message-ID: <199801300049.TAA12696@insun023>
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Hi,
I am on leave till mid Feb'98. Will try to get back to you as soon as
possible.
-regards
Atish
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In article <199801292256.UAA01019.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@daniel.sobral> you
write:
>I was playing with truss today, and used it against the program that
>tests my device driver. Surprisingly, it didn't work. Is it possible
>that truss interferes with the normal operation of the driver, or
>should I assume there is, indeed, a bug that does not appear under
>any other conditions (so far tested)?
truss *may* cause problems, timing wise -- the target process is stopped
until
it is restarted, and that may be a problem in your case.
Without more information, I can't quite say, I'm afraid.
But, by itself... no, I can't see truss causing any real problem. It causes
the process being traced to stop on system call entry, and system call exit.
What do you mean by, "it didn't work"? (That is, how didn't it work?)
>BTW, I noticed truss gives me hex numbers for all read() parameters,
>but decimal numbers for the first and the third parameters of
>write().
Mainly because I haven't done anything about read(). If you take a look at
/usr/src/usr.bin/truss/syscalls.c (I think it is), there's an entry in the
array for write(), but not read(). By default, truss will print out
arguments
in hex, if it doesn't know any better -- and it can't know any better unless
someone tells it ;).
It's easy enough to change; read() would look something like:
{ "read", 1, 3, { { Int, 0}, { Ptr|OUT, 1}, { Int, 2}}},
(which breaks down to:
syscall "read", returns a single value, takes three
arguments; they are an int at offset 0, a ptr that is
modified by the syscall at offset 1, and an int at offset
2.
"Int" is printed out in decimal, and Ptr's are printed out as hex).
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