19 Mar
2003
19 Mar
'03
10:26 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:59:03AM -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
[lamenting a difficult bug in as]
What might be needed is a decent (or existent ;))
syscall tracing
capability. That combined with the capability to "coredump a non-0
exit process) might be enough to track down what's causing 'as'
to depart the scene prematurely.
This might sound weird, but my Apout user-mode PDP-11 simulator might just
be the tool for this. It would be trivial to put some syscall tracing code
into the simulator, and I have rebuilt a 2.11BSD kernel with Apout several
times.
Warren