From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758024AbZBEPOj (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:14:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753928AbZBEPO3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:14:29 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:58510 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751568AbZBEPO2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:14:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:14:44 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Bill Nottingham Cc: Harald Hoyer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, power@bughost.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracer for sys_open() - sreadahead Message-ID: <20090205071444.390c19bc@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090205150705.GC6865@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> References: <497F69A4.2070007@intel.com> <20090130202219.GA1253@ucw.cz> <20090203133251.GD29046@elte.hu> <20090205150705.GC6865@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:07:05 -0500 Bill Nottingham wrote: > Harald Hoyer (harald@redhat.com) said: > > Can strace can be used on init? > > > > $ man strace > > ... > > On Linux, exciting as it would be, tracing the init process > > is forbidden. ... > > > > Any hope getting _any_ mechanism in the kernel?? > > The man page probably needs fixed - this works as of a few kernel > releases ago. > you can strace init but you can't strace X (at least... last I tried it locked my box ;0) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org