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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:19:18 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Stefan Schwarzer <sschwarzer@sschwarzer.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: top(1) blocks
Message-ID:  <20020721221918.GI40625@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D3B3144.6010603@sschwarzer.net>
References:  <3D3AD89E.3000104@sschwarzer.net> <20020721195730.GH40625@dan.emsphone.com> <3D3B3144.6010603@sschwarzer.net>

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In the last episode (Jul 22), Stefan Schwarzer said:
> svss@purpurea:~$ kdump
>  45359 ktrace   RET   ktrace 0
>  45359 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xbfbff5f8,0xbfbffb00,0xbfbffb10)
>  45359 ktrace   NAMI  "/sbin/top"
>  45359 ktrace   RET   execve -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>  45359 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xbfbff5f8,0xbfbffb00,0xbfbffb10)
>  45359 ktrace   NAMI  "/bin/top"
>  45359 ktrace   RET   execve -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>  45359 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xbfbff5f8,0xbfbffb00,0xbfbffb10)
>  45359 ktrace   NAMI  "/usr/sbin/top"
>  45359 ktrace   RET   execve -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>  45359 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xbfbff5f8,0xbfbffb00,0xbfbffb10)
>  45359 ktrace   NAMI  "/usr/bin/top"
>  45359 ktrace   NAMI  "/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1"

Hm. you should see lines with "top" in the 2nd column.  It looks like
top isn't even being executed at all.  Ah, wait.  Top is setuid root on
-STABLE.  Try running ktrace/top as root.  You should get a much larger
dump.  Only the last 20 or so lines will be important

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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