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Re: strace patch for better handling of hung applications.


Hi!

Saturday, 03 November, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:

CF> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:54:03PM +0300, egor duda wrote:
>>
>>  i occasionally have a problem with strace when i need to turn
>>buffering on because without it application starts to work properly.
>>but with buffering, application may just freeze and i can only close a
>>window it's running in. in this case buffered info (frequently it's
>>the most interesting info) is lost. attached patch adds -w option
>>similar to gdb's 'set new-console' and periodically flushes buffered
>>info.

CF> I like the idea but how about making it more flexible?

CF> Maybe we need a "flush every n seconds switch?"  I'd like this to be
CF> selectable because there are times that I don't want to see the output
CF> until the program exits since I want to get the maximum throughput from
CF> strace possible.

CF> So, if you specify '-S60', then strace will flush every sixty seconds.
CF> Otherwise it will behave as before.

CF> Otherwise, the '-w' option is fine, if you want to check that part in.

no probs. here's an updated patch.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19

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