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Date:      Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:07:36 +1100 (EDT)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Cc:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: truss, trace ??
Message-ID:  <199612080408.UAA24288@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199612080338.TAA10302@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at Dec 7, 96 07:38:52 pm

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In some mail from Sean Eric Fagan, sie said:
> 
> >Whilst we have ktrace(2) which works with ktrace(1) and kdump(2), there is
> >no ptrace(2)
> 
> Uh... how do you think gdb talks to processes?  It uses ptrace().
> 
> Our ptrace is not sufficient to do syscall stops, though.  I have changes to
> procfs and the rest of the kernel that do allow it, however, and I've
> written an EP version of truss that uses it.

Are these going to be integrated into 3.0 ?

Darren



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