Re: strace

[Jonathan Amery <jdamery@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

In article <[🔎] Marcel-1.50-0910172645-c72h+Ty@chewy.aleph1.co.uk> you write:
>However this leads me to find that strace is not behaving as I expect. For
>any binary I give it it tells me that  execve <name of binary>  happened
>but then no more system calls are traced - the traced binary just runs and
>outputs whatever it normally would.
>
>This is on a RiscPC (rev-S strongarm).
>
>strace version is 4.4-1.2

 Running the same version on ysolde (which I believe is rev-S (but
could be a T)) it seems to work fine.

: pts/2[r] bash[1013] ; uname -a
Linux ysolde 2.4.18-rmk7 #1 Sun Aug 18 01:07:48 BST 2002 armv4l unknown

>I've also found a selection of other things wrong with woody-on-riscpc,
>some of which I'll no doubt be bugging you all about in due course :-)

 I've got an (apparantly) working woody xdm .deb if you want one...

>But on the whole it seems a great improvement over potato-on-riscpc - well
>done all, especially phil.

 Agreed!

 J.