writing ktrace output to serial port

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:29, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> So I want to see what is happening just before my mplayer crashes the
> kernel. The problem is that ktracing mplayer does not help as filesystem
> can't keep ktrace.out being written just before crash. I tried 'sync'
> mount,
> it does not help too.
>
> I decided to divert ktrace.out to /dev/cuaa0 so another FreeBSD will keep
> it. However, ktrace() in src/sys/kern/kern_trace.c does not permit writing
> to non-regular file. Why?

The actual syscall passes a filename, not a file descriptor so you'd have to 
change that (or make a new syscall) if you wanted to change it at all :(

It would be nice to be able to ktrace() to an fd (eg socket or pipe) though :)

See ktrace() in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_ktrace.c:494

As for your problem..
Can you NFS mount? If you have no ethernet you could NFS mount over 
PPP/SLIP :)
(or PLIP if you have a parallel port)

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