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Re: blind spot for java



On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:22:17AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:09:38PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
> > On Friday 26 August 2005 14:43, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > >
> > > Then maybe it's a shared library that's missing?  I had a problem like this
> > > years ago with Modula 3.  There's some kind of command (strace ?  -- I
> > > forget the name; I use it so rarely) that will trace all the system
> > > calls while your program is starting up (and thereafter).  That might
> > > make it clearer what file it is complaining about.
> > 
> > Well I gave it a shot. I don't know what the output means but it doesn't look 
> > like it provides much more information.
> > 
> > #strace -otrace.txt ./java
> > strace: exec: No such file or directory
> > #cat trace.txt
> > execve("./java", ["./java"], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
> > directory)
> 
> It seems to be saying that there is no such file or directory about "./java",
> not about any libraries or other files that it might be tempted to look at
> in executing ./java.

Well, now that I've read other messages with the real reason for the
problem (missing library) I feel kind of stupid.  I guess the system
call ends up reading the other file internally, without letting on.
That I didn't know.

-- hendrik



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