Re: limiting strace?, was: failure of unzip and recent cygwin1.dll

2004-02-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: > Is there a way to limit the size of the strace output _file_, rather > than just the output file buffer, while preserving desired > information? > > I previously used strace to debug the problem that 20040213 induced in > emacs 'desktop', therefore in e

RE: limiting strace?, was: failure of unzip and recent cygwin1.dll

2004-02-18 Thread Ross Boulet
> > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: > > > Is there a way to limit the size of the strace output _file_, rather > > than just the output file buffer, while preserving desired > > information? > > > > I previously used strace to debug the problem that 20040213 > induced in > > emacs 'de

RE: limiting strace?, was: failure of unzip and recent cygwin1.dll

2004-02-18 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to limit the size of the strace output _file_, rather > > > than just the output file buffer, while preserving desired > > > information? > > > > > > I previously used strace to debug th

RE: limiting strace?, was: failure of unzip and recent cygwin1.dll

2004-02-18 Thread Ross Boulet
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > [...snip...] > > Just adding my 2 cents and hopefully to learn something: > > > > I know how to use pipes but I don't know how they are > handled "under the > > covers". Wouldn't piping the strace to tail or grep still produce a > > temporary file of a

RE: limiting strace?, was: failure of unzip and recent cygwin1.dll

2004-02-18 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > > [...snip...] > > > Just adding my 2 cents and hopefully to learn something: > > > > > > I know how to use pipes but I don't know how they are handled "under > > > the covers". Wouldn't piping the strace to t

RE: limiting strace?, was: failure of unzip and recent cygwin1.dll

2004-02-18 Thread Ross Boulet
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > > [...snip...] > > Ok, time for "Pipes 101". A pipe is essentially a bounded (character) > buffer. The producer application fills the buffer (by writing to the > pipe), and the consumer application e

RE: limiting strace?, was: failure of unzip and recent cygwin1.dll

2004-02-18 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > > > > > [...snip...] > > > Ok, time for "Pipes 101". A pipe is essentially a bounded (character) > > buffer. The producer application fills the buffer (by w