Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/28/02:13:13
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:20:19 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 AT 02:20:35PM -0600, Polley Christopher W wrote:
>>Are there more complete instructions to strace besides --help, the Cygwin
>>user guide, or winsup/utils/utils.sgml (all essentially the same thing)?
>
>If we had better documentation why would it be hidden?
I didn't think it was "hidden", I only humbly thought there might be a
more detailed document that the more clueful users on this list had
awareness of. I'm sorry if I've offended you by my query.
>
>The best documentation is the source code. In this case, the use of
>strace -p would require that you do your debugging from an account which
>had the ability to access the executing pid. If you are running inetd
>from a privileged account and stracing from a user account that won't
>work for hopefully obvious reasons.
Well, inetd is running from the system account (18). The user account
I was using to run strace has local (machine) administrator privileges
(i.e. is in the machine's "Administrators" group.) Is this
sufficiently privileged?
Is the silent failure (immediate exit from strace) I observed a result
of this lack of privilege?
Could I instead put
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/strace strace -o
/strace_telnetd.log all /usr/bin/in.telnetd
in inetd.conf? Or will this cause problems?
>
>Also, due to limitations in the Windows API, there is no way to strace a
>forked process via strace -p. strace -p uses the DebugActiveProcess
>function and there is no way to tell the process being debugged that you
>need to follow CreateProcess calls.
I'm interpreting your statement to mean that the -p and -f options of
strace are incompatible. I see now from reviewing the code how this
is so.
I am confused by the lack of "couldn't attach to pid %d<%d> for
debugging" that I would expect if DebugActiveProcess were to fail due
to lack of permission, and the lack of "Attached to pid %d (windows
pid %u)\n" that I would expect if it were to succeed (in the first 5
cases of my previous email) and the lack of strace output from inetd
handling a telnet request (in the last case) (granted, it wouldn't
output anything from any of inetd's children). I guess I'll need to
attach gdb to strace attaching to a pid...
Thanks,
Chris
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