Hello andrew!

Feb 14 06:24 03, andrew clarke wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 GK>> Don't know, either. Does using strace instead of truss give you more
 GK>> informative output? 

 ac> There is no strace in BSD.  Running Linux's strace in FreeBSD results 
 ac> in:

 ac> execve("./rexcfgl", ["./rexcfgl"], [/* 29 vars */]) = 0
 ac> strace: ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, ...): Function not implemented

You can install strace for BSD from ports:

gerrit{at}theq:~> whereis strace
strace: /usr/ports/devel/strace


 ac> Which is probably to be expected.  Presumably if it'd worked, it'd 
 ac> given the same output anyway.

I don't know, I find strace output more human readable than truss, but this
may be just my point of view.


Regards,
Gerrit

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