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Date:      Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:11:22 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Subject:   Re: Why I can't trace linux process's childs with truss?
Message-ID:  <20100918161122.GU2389@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikiWs9O%2B8%2BmwOaE4nVovT0yDQ3GvPO7E9H_MWkW@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4C8A81D9.5020905@rawbw.com> <20100910194600.GB60815@stack.nl> <20100912130801.GA23538@freebsd.org> <AANLkTikiWs9O%2B8%2BmwOaE4nVovT0yDQ3GvPO7E9H_MWkW@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:01:09PM +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wro=
te:
> > there's a PR related to this "issue" [1]. so is truss missing this
> > functionality or is this in fact a feature, because truss musn't be use=
d on
> > any non freebsd executable?
> >
>=20
> Actually truss handles linux processes just fine, except for their childr=
en. :)
> Linux process can create a child using linux_clone syscall, but truss doe=
s not
> handle that case and this can be the problem that Yuri reported (since
> no log was
> provided, I can only guess).
>=20
> This trivial patch should fix this:
> http://student.agh.edu.pl/~mjguzik/truss-linux-forks.patch
This is too trivial, IMO. linux_clone() does not neccessary cause new
process to be created, I think.

>=20
> Tested on this simple program:
> http://student.agh.edu.pl/~mjguzik/fork.c
>=20
> If it still does not work, log generated by truss would be helfpul.

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