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Subject: Re: limiting strace?
From: Thomas L Roche <tlroche AT us DOT ibm DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:32:03 -0500
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote:
>> Is there a way to limit the [strace] file size directly, or to
>> script its rotation?

Igor Pechtchanski 02/16/2004 03:56:10 PM:
> You're on Cygwin, man!  Use the scripting tools! :-)

The will is there! It's the howto I need :-(

> Don't forget that strace by default sends the trace to stdout. You
> can then pipe it to any program you wish (e.g., "tail -100", or

That part I understand, and I know how to use those tools to *report
from* strace.out ... but that's not what I'm trying to do. I don't
want to say, "give me the last million lines from strace.out"--windows
being what it is, if the file's big enough I may not get a chance to
ask!

I want instead to say something like, "don't let strace.out get bigger
than a million lines," or 1GB, or something like that. How to do
_that_, script wizards?


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