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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:13:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        dwhite@gumbysoft.com
Cc:        bland@mail.ru
Subject:   Re: truss issue
Message-ID:  <200312152114.hBFLDweF068169@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031215084226.W81321@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On 15 Dec, Doug White wrote:

> My reading of it is that it is truss hitting itself with the same signal
> that killed the process that it was tracing so that truss will exit
> showing that it was killed by a signal. So this is actually implementing
> the requested functionality.  Processes that exit due to a signal don't
> return an exit code.  It seems keyed on 'sigexit' whatever that is.

Hmn, I wonder if it would be cleaner to exec() the executable to be
traced in the parent process and run truss in the child ...



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