Re: New packages

[Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>]

chris mckillop <cdmckill@warg.uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> On 9 Jul 1999, Jim Pick wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The last symbol on your webpage is execv - I think an strace output
> > would be useful here.  I did manage to get strace working here - I'll
> > upload it in a few minutes.
> > 
> 
> 	Okay, I gathered the strace information.  The last two calls
> to close() using those large negative numbers do not look good!  
> 
> 	ftp://warg.uwaterloo.ca/pub/incoming/netwinder/strace.txt

Yeah, that looks sort of wierd.  I don't know where those came from.  :-)

You might also try "strace -f".

I notice a vfork() syscall there.  I think that's a fairly new
development in the kernels.

I'm using the 2.2.9 kernel package.  Which kernel are you using?

Cheers,

 - Jim