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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!io.org!news.interlog.com!news From: Michel Joly de Lotbiniere <mjdl@interlog.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /proc usage problems Date: 19 Sep 1995 17:33:20 GMT Organization: None Lines: 17 Message-ID: <43mut0$pam@steel.interlog.com> References: <43kt94$lgd@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lotbiniere.interlog.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) To: psmith@cs.ubc.ca X-URL: news:43kt94$lgd@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca psmith@cs.ubc.ca (Peter Smith) wrote: > > [snip-snip] >What I'm trying to do is stop and restart a process by writing >commands to /proc/<pid>/ctl. I think I've found a bug in the procfs >code (I've examined the source code), but on the other hand, I might >just be using it incorrectly. I tried looking at 'gdb', without much >success, and 'trace' doesn't appear to exist. > ktrace(1) and kdump(1) are supposed to do what (s)trace does on other Unices. -- ========================= Michel Joly de Lotbiniere mjdl@interlog.com =========================