On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Kostik Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com> writes: > > The slightly contrived example below works on RELENG_7 amd64, > > relevant output from the truss is > > readlink("/usr/X11R6","l",1) = 1 (0x1) > > on the CURRENT gives > > readlink("/usr/X11R6","l",1) = -4294967295 > > (0xffffffff00000001) [also please note wrong output for the third > > readlink arg; ktrace/kdump works ok]. > > The only advantage truss has is the ability to decode structs > (e.g. struct sockaddr in a connect() call). Apart from that, ktrace > / kdump is superior in every respect. That's a pretty big advantage :) Also, ktrace can't write to a pipe which means you need to run/process rather than 'stream'. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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