On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:02:09PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Jos Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Forwarded message from Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > +1. =) I've talked to the FreeBSD people and they just laugh > > maniacally when I ask for a truss that follows children. AIUI, > > NetBSD has this, so it is possible to port these changes over, > > but it requires an overhaul to procfs from what I've been told. > > > > FreeBSD has a long way to get the stellar debugging capabilities > > of Solaris. -- justin > > I think that the output from FreeBSD's truss is pretty > pathetic and unusable. ktrace is somewhat better.
Mmmm - I can't compare... On alpha: ===> Building for strace-4.4 cc -b alpha--freebsd5.0 -Wall -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Ifreebsd/alpha -I./freebsd/alpha -Ifreebsd -I./freebsd -D_GNU_SOURCE -O -pipe -mcpu=ev56 -c strace.c In file included from strace.c:34: defs.h:96: #error "FreeBSD support is only for i386 arch right now." strace.c: In function `trace': strace.c:1461: warning: label `FOUND' defined but not used *** Error code 1 I asume this should be tagged i386 only in the port. On i386: ticso@cicely5# strace sleep 1 strace: PIOCSTATUS: Inappropriate ioctl for device trouble opening proc file Exit 1 > PS: I tried strace under -stable only. I don't know if > it works under -current as well. Seems not. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
