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 'desktop',

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 the problem that

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 large size?

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 tail or grep still

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 empties it (by

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 writing to the

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 emacs'