Amiga 3000UX first impressions
Keith Gabryelski
ag at cbmvax.commodore.com
Tue Feb 5 04:16:02 AEST 1991
In article <25196 at grebyn.com> brian at grebyn.com (Brian Bishop) writes:
>In article <843 at amix.commodore.com> skrenta at amix.commodore.com (Rich Skrenta) writes:
>>
>> Truss is a system call tracer:
>>
>> $ mkdir one
>> $ truss mv one two
>> execve("/usr/bin/mv", 0xC07FFF00, 0xC07FFF10) argc = 3
>> open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY, 0) = 3
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> Is this real output? Does truss know to replace the value in the call with
>the #define O_RDONLY? If so, that's way cool!! How does it know to do this??
Only somewhat ``way cool''--truss has a set of compiled-in strings
that it uses to resolve the arguments.
The `-x' switch turns this feature off. (ie no symbolic processing
is done and all arguments are displayed as hex digits).
Pax, Keith
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