ktrace/kdump question: intrepretting calls.

[Josef Karthauser]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:33:09PM +0100, David Malone wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:40:41PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > I'm trying to work out what a particular application does by using
> > ktrace and kdump.  At the relevant point in the kdump it says:
> > 
> >   1080 Application CALL  #91(0x28d28000,0x4000)
> >   1080 Application RET   #91 0
> > 
> > How do I go about working out what this call means?  I guess that it's
> > to a library somewhere, but I'm not sure what.  I'd like to ktrace that
> > too if possible.
> 
> Is it a linux binary? The #91 means syscall 91 AFAIK, which isn't
> in use on -stable or -current. However Linux syscall #91 is munmap,
> which looks like a plausable candidate given the arguments. Try
> installing the linux_kdump port...
> 

Thanks. I'll take a look.

Joe
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