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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:44:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote:

> I have tried strace -p cygpid on a number of processes with no luck.  It
> just hangs for a few seconds and exits.  Am I doing something wrong?
>
> ford AT fordpc ~
> $ sleep 100&
> [4] 374
>
> ford AT fordpc ~
> $ strace -p 374
>
> ford AT fordpc ~
> $ echo $?
> 5
>
> Thanks.

Hmm, yes -- in my case I'm getting a segfault, so it's apparently broken.
If I have time later this week, I'll build a debugging version of strace
to see what's going on here.
	Igor
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