bin/149403: truss(1) hangs when user input is requested

[Marcin Wisnicki]

The following reply was made to PR bin/149403; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd at gmail.com>
To: Ilya Bakulin <webmaster at kibab.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/149403: truss(1) hangs when user input is requested
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:35:36 +0200

 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 22:02, Ilya Bakulin <webmaster at kibab.com> wrote:
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 > Seems that truss(1) is not supposed to transfer any control to the traced program (judging by source
 > code), so this is not a bug.
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 Code does not matter. User wants to trace a program, uses truss to do
 it and it doesn't work.
 A bug from user's perspective. Especially when it works on other
 operating systems.
 
 If fixing it is hard and no one is willing to do it any time soon,
 then truss(1) should have a note in BUGS section documenting this and
 other long-time known deficiencies (like broken -f option).
 
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 > Ilya Bakulin
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