Re: Linux compat and swap

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:40:10AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost writes:
> 
> > I'm also still a bit puzzled by the behavior of the program since I use
> > it as a filter and it should read one line at a time (and doesn't need
> > to keep whatever information to correlate lines)...
> 
> We're all puzzled too, but until you read the source code, it's hard to
> tell!  (Yes, I know you can't, and that's the problem.)
> 
> You may also want to run the program under ktrace and see what it does.

Can you ktrace "normally" a program under compat/emulation?

Note: it seems they have released as open source in december 2019 a
total rewrite. It's a deb file so I will see if there are indeed the
sources when unpacked so that I can, first, compile it natively on
NetBSD and, second, if it is still strange, I then would be able to
give it a look...
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