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Date:      Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:51:55 -0800
From:      David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
To:        Jens Trzaska <jt@barfoos.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: truss and /sbin/init
Message-ID:  <35c231bf0602080751p6df719f0sf61cee25d3404a8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060208152546.GA78035@anastasia.lan.barfoos.de>
References:  <20060208152546.GA78035@anastasia.lan.barfoos.de>

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On 2/8/06, Jens Trzaska <jt@barfoos.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried to use truss on the running /sbin/init process.
>
>         root@beast:~# truss -p 1
>         truss: cannot open /proc/1/mem: No such file or directory
>         Exit 8
>
> As you can see without any luck. But why is the memory information
> missing in procfs here? /sbin/init is a more or less regular userland
> process. Looking at truss(1) it even shows this example:

The memory is apparently locked in core, according to the L flag for
'ps'. This should probably be documented in the truss man page to
avoid confusion.

FWIW, you can run ktrace on init, although I don't really recommend
running it with the '-d' or '-i' flags unless you have a lot of space
for the output, heh.



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